''Palaemon kadiakensis'', commonly known as the Mississippi grass shrimp, is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...

shrimp A shrimp (: shrimp (American English, US) or shrimps (British English, UK)) is a crustacean with an elongated body and a primarily Aquatic locomotion, swimming mode of locomotion – typically Decapods belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchi ...

from the central United States, specifically the

Mississippi River Basin The Mississippi River is the primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, ...

Early development

The eggs of ''Palaemon kadiakensis'' are 1.4 mm. long or about one twenty-fifth of the adult length. In laboratory settings the incubation period of Palaemon kadiakensis eggs has been observed to be 24–28 days. After hatching a ''P. kadiakensis'' will go through six distinct larval stages before reaching its final adult form. Among larvae reared in experiments, the duration of larval life was 16 to 24 days and the average length of larval life was 19.64 days. In laboratory settings the larvae are fed

Artemia salina ''Artemia salina'' is a species of brine shrimp – aquatic crustaceans that are more closely related to '' Triops'' and cladocerans than to true shrimp. It belongs to a lineage that does not appear to have changed much in . ''Artemia salina'' i ...

Nauplius or 100-500 micron sized commercial feed.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q74317914, from2=Q4483156 Palaemonidae Crustaceans described in 1902