Teppo Snapping Shrimp

Alpheus brevicristatus

• Group: Shrimp

A snapping shrimp of soft mud flats exposed at the lowest spring tides, it also turns up among seagrass meadows. It carries the oversized snapping claw typical of its family, firing a stunning shock wave to defend its burrow and stun small prey.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Alpheidae › Alpheus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 514838.