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Grass Shrimp - Palaemon vulgaris
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Grass Shrimp - Palaemon vulgaris
Edisto Island/ Jeremy Inlet, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
November 27, 2013
close up of rostrum

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Contributed by S Moorman on 22 August, 2014 - 1:22pm
Last updated 16 October, 2017 - 11:42am

Moved
Moved from Palaemon.
… Aaron Hunt, 16 October, 2017 - 11:42am

Forked rostrum and one tooth
Forked rostrum and one tooth behind the end of the eye socket would inticate P. intermedius based on the Petterson Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore.
… Dann Thombs, 19 February, 2016 - 1:00pm

Moved
Moved from Caridean shrimps.
… Aaron Hunt, 26 August, 2015 - 11:08am

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