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Nematocarcinus
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Nematocarcinus

Nematocarcinus, sometimes known as spider shrimp, is a genus of caridean shrimp, the nominotype of Nematocarcinidae. Similar to the other members of their family, Nematocarcinus inhabit the deep sea, walking on the seabed with their specialized, extremely elongate legs (the pereiopods). Despite continuing fisheries experiments, they are currently not commercially fished, but often appear as bycatch.

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8 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Nematocarcinus rotundus

speciesNematocarcinus rotundus

Nematocarcinus gracilis

speciesNematocarcinus gracilis

Nematocarcinus tenuirostris

speciesNematocarcinus tenuirostris

Nematocarcinus cursor

speciesNematocarcinus cursor

Nematocarcinus agassizii

speciesNematocarcinus agassizii

Nematocarcinus subtegulisfactus

speciesNematocarcinus subtegulisfactus

Nematocarcinus ensifer

speciesNematocarcinus ensifer

African spider shrimp

speciesNematocarcinus africanus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 248311.