Thin Shrimp

Parapenaeopsis gracillima

• Group: Shrimp

A slender little shrimp of the tropics, the thin shrimp lives on intertidal mud flats along sheltered coasts. It belongs to the penaeid prawns, the same family that supplies much of the world's farmed shrimp.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Penaeidae › Parapenaeopsis

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 377551.