Lepidophthalmus turneranus

Tags: Crustacean.

Lepidophthalmus turneranus (formerly Callianassa turnerana) the Cameroon ghost shrimp is a species of ghost shrimp or mud lobster that lives off the coast of West Africa. It occasionally irrupts into dense swarms one of which resulted in the naming of the country Cameroon.

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class

Malacostraca

family

Callianassidae

genus

Lepidophthalmus

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*, *Callianassa diademata (Ortmann 1891), *Callianassa turnerana (White 1861), *Callichirus turneranus (White 1861)