Tidepool Ghost Shrimp

Neotrypaea biffari

• Group: Shrimp

This ghost shrimp digs elaborate branching burrows in soft sand beneath boulder strewn beaches, rarely leaving the safety of its tunnels. It reaches only a few centimetres in body length and spends its life shifting sediment, an unseen engineer of the shore.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Callianassidae › Neotrypaea

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 465342.