Estuarine Ghost Shrimp

Lepidophthalmus jamaicense

• Group: Shrimp

The estuarine ghost shrimp digs deep burrows in the shifting sand of brackish intertidal flats, wedging in among stones and sandbars. Pale and soft bodied, it pumps water through its tunnels and almost never leaves them.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Callichiridae › Lepidophthalmus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 477712.