[Paratya] is our most common freshwater shrimp. The first walking legs lack the large chelipeds (pincers) of crayfish, but instead the en...
[Tenagomysis] is a mysid shrimp usually found in estuarine waters with some salinity. The body is smaller and more slender than [Paratya]...
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