Trypaea
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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, and as the Australian ghost shrimp elsewhere, is a common species of mud shrimp in south-eastern Australia, and may be the only extant species in the genus Trypaea. T. australiensis is a popular bait used live or frozen by Australians targeting a range of species. It grows to a length of and lives in burrows in mudflats or sandbanks, especially in or near estuaries.
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, and as the Australian ghost shrimp elsewhere, is a common species of mud shrimp in south-eastern Australia, and may be the only extant species in the genus Trypaea. T. australiensis is a popular bait used live or frozen by Australians targeting a range of species. It grows to a length of and lives in burrows in mudflats or sandbanks, especially in or near estuaries. ==Species== One extant and two extinct species belong to the genus Trypaea: Trypaea australiensis Dana, 1852 (Australian ghost shrimp) (Indo-West Pacific and Australia) † Trypaea inornata (Nagao & Huzioka, 1938) † Trypaea mizunamiensis Karasawa, 1993 (temperate Asia) ==References==
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