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The sound is slightly alarming to hear in the aquarium, as it sounds similar to cracking glass. The main feature of the pistol shrimp’s noise, however, is that it is very, very loud. Some species of pistol shrimps rival whales for the accolade of noisiest creature in the ocean—pretty ...
It is suitable for most planted aquariums with small friendly fish species. They are scavengers and will not harm anything living. They can help you keep your aquarium algae free as they eat algae from the leaf of your plants as well as from rocks and other decorations. They can even weed...
Patoka J, Blaha M, Devetter M, Rylkova K, Čadkova Z, Kalous L (2016a) Aquarium hitchhikers: attached commensals imported with freshwater shrimps via the pet trade. Biological Invasions 18: 457- 461, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-1018-9...
Mantis shrimps’raptorial appendagescontain massive muscles that can extend them to their full length in hundredths of a second, producing strike forces that in some species can smash through the glass wall of an aquarium or instantly dismember a crab. Thesesmashing attacks are so...
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Background The hippolytid shrimp genus, Lysmata (Risso, 1816), has attracted the attention of biologists for several decades. Members of this genus are small caridean shrimp and occur in tropical to warm temperate marine coastal waters worldwide. They are popular marine aquarium pets, with some ...
For the purpose of this contribution, we consider a palaemonid shrimp species to be 'free-living' if in general they do not live on or inside a host animal, although they can potentially enter into infrequent short-term rela- tionships with a putative host taxon, for example residing for ...
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