Marlin Harms, California USA, California, USA
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Neotrypaea californiensis (Dana, 1854)
Small mounds of sand, often in vast fields, are evidence of excavation activity. Males are typical large-clwaed.
Similar to the narrow-clawed ghost shrimp Neotrypaea gigas, which has a longer rostrum, lives in similar locales.This species may also dwell somewhat deeper and so is less often encountered by the casual naturalist.
In California the species is used as bait together with Neotrypaea biffari and Neotrypaea gigas, and in the accounts of the bait fishery the threeare usually treated together. Neotrypaea californiensis is the most important of the three. As a bait for steelhead, the ghost shrimp is so effective, it is banned in some locales.
Synonymised names:
Callianassa (Trypaea) californiensis Dana, 1854 (superseded recombination)
Callianassa californiensis Dana, 1854 (superseded original combination)
Callianassa occidentalis Stimpson, 1856 (junior subjective synonym)
Trypaea californiensis (Dana, 1854) (superseded recombination)
Small mounds of sand, often in vast fields, are evidence of excavation activity. Males are typical large-clwaed.
Similar to the narrow-clawed ghost shrimp Neotrypaea gigas, which has a longer rostrum, lives in similar locales.This species may also dwell somewhat deeper and so is less often encountered by the casual naturalist.
In California the species is used as bait together with Neotrypaea biffari and Neotrypaea gigas, and in the accounts of the bait fishery the threeare usually treated together. Neotrypaea californiensis is the most important of the three. As a bait for steelhead, the ghost shrimp is so effective, it is banned in some locales.
Synonymised names:
Callianassa (Trypaea) californiensis Dana, 1854 (superseded recombination)
Callianassa californiensis Dana, 1854 (superseded original combination)
Callianassa occidentalis Stimpson, 1856 (junior subjective synonym)
Trypaea californiensis (Dana, 1854) (superseded recombination)
