Common Name | Loggerhead snapping shrimp |
Language | English |
Type | AFS |
Official Trade Name | No |
Rank | 1 - (Legal common name (unique)) |
Country | United States (contiguous states) |
Locality | |
Ref. | Williams, A.B., L.G. Abele, D.L. Felder, H.H. Hobbs Jr., R.B. Manning, P.A. McLaughlin and I. Pérez Farfante, 1988 |
Life Stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | morphology |
1st Modifier | behavior |
2nd Modifier | morphology |
Remarks | 'shrimp' from Old Norse 'skorpna', i.e., 'to shrivel up'. |