Trypaea australiensis
Trypaea australiensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Callianassidae
Subfamily: Callianassinae
Genus: Trypaea
Dana, 1852
Species:
T. australiensis
Binomial name
Trypaea australiensis
Dana, 1852

Trypaea australiensis, known as the (marine) yabby or ghost nipper in Australia, or as the one-arm bandit due to their occasional abnormally large arm,[1] and as the Australian ghost shrimp elsewhere,[2] is a common species of mud shrimp in south-eastern Australia,[2] and may be the only extant species in the genus Trypaea.[3][4] T. australiensis is a popular bait used live or frozen by Australians targeting a range of species.[5] It grows to a length of 6 centimetres (2.4 in) and lives in burrows in mudflats or sandbanks, especially in or near estuaries.[6]

Species

One extant and two extinct species belong to the genus Trypaea:[7]

  • Trypaea australiensis Dana, 1852 (Australian ghost shrimp) (Indo-West Pacific and Australia)
  • † Trypaea inornata (Nagao & Huzioka, 1938)
  • † Trypaea mizunamiensis Karasawa, 1993 (temperate Asia)

References

  1. ↑ "Fishnet | Library". Archived from the original on 8 May 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Species Trypaea australiensis Dana, 1852". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. 3 June 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Trypaea Dana, 1852". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  4. ↑ Gary Poore (2010). "Trypaea Dana, 1852". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  5. ↑ K. Rowling, A. Hegarty & M. Ives, ed. (2010). "Ghost nipper (Trypaea australiensis)". Status of Fisheries Resources in NSW 2008/09 (PDF). Cronulla: NSW Industry & Investment. pp. 143–144.
  6. ↑ "Trypaea australiensis Dana, 1852, Australian ghost shrimp". SeaLifeBase. 23 March 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  7. ↑ "WoRMS taxon details, Trypaea Dana, 1852". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 3 September 2023.


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