The term mud shrimp is used for a number of different mud-dwelling
crustacean
Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are traditionally a part of the subphylum Crustacea (), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthrop ...
s:
*The former infraorder
Thalassinidea
Thalassinidea is the former infraorder classification of decapod crustaceans that live in burrows in muddy bottoms of the world's oceans. In Australian English, the littoral thalassinidean '' Trypaea australiensis'' is referred to as the ''yabby'' ...
, which included genera such as ''
Callianassa
''Callianassa'' is a genus of mud shrimps, in the family Callianassidae. Three of the species in this genus ('' C. candida'', '' C. tyrrhena'' and '' C. whitei'') have been split off into a new genus, '' Pestarella'', while others such as '' Ca ...
'', ''
Pestarella'' and ''
Upogebia''
**Infraorder
Axiidea
Axiidea is an infraorder of decapod crustaceans. They are colloquially known as mud shrimp, ghost shrimp, or burrowing shrimp; however, these decapods are only distantly related to true shrimp. Axiidea and Gebiidea are divergent infraorders of t ...
, comprising part of the former infraorder Thalassinidea
**Infraorder
Gebiidea
Gebiidea is an infraorder of Decapoda, decapod crustaceans. Gebiidea and Axiidea are divergent infraoders of the former infraorder Thalassinidea. These infraorders have converged Ecology, ecologically and Morphology (biology), morphologically as ...
, comprising part of the former infraorder Thalassinidea
*''
Corophium volutator
''Corophium volutator'' is a species of amphipod crustacean in the family Corophiidae. It is found in mudflats of the northern Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic div ...
'', an amphipod of the North Atlantic
*Species of ''
Solenocera'', a genus of prawns
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