| Common Name | California fairy shrimp |
| Language | English |
| Type | Vernacular |
| Official Trade Name | No |
| Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
| Country | United States (contiguous states) |
| Locality | California |
| Ref. | NatureServe, 2009 |
| Life Stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | morphology |
| 1st Modifier | behavior |
| 2nd Modifier | locality/area |
| Remarks | 'shrimp', from Middle Low German 'schrempen', i.e., to contract or to wrinkle, from Old Norse 'skorpna', i.e., to shrivel up; fairy, from Anglo-French 'faerie', from Latin 'Fata', i.e., goddes of fate. |