Bamboo Shrimp
Atyopsis moluccensis
Animalia
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 2-5 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Filter Feeder
- Activity
- Cathemeral
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Freshwater stream
- Range
- Southeast Asia
- Movement
- Walking
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Rare
About
This freshwater shrimp lives in fast-moving streams across Southeast Asia. It uses fan-like appendages to filter microscopic food particles from the current.
Life cycle
- 1.juvenileA juvenile crustacean takes adult form after its larval phase, growing in stages between molts.
- 2.adultFully grown at adult size and full hard shell.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Atyidae
- Genus
- Atyopsis
- Species
- Atyopsis moluccensis