Hippolyte californiensis, the California green shrimp, is a species of shrimp in the family Hippolytidae. It is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.[2] It was first described in 1895 by the zoologist S.J. Holmes from Bodega Bay, California. Of the 32 or so species in the genus Hippolyte, it is most closely related to H. obliquimanus and H. williamsi.[3]
| Hippolyte californiensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Hippolytidae |
| Genus: | Hippolyte |
| Species: | H. californiensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Hippolyte californiensis Holmes, 1895[1]
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Description
editThree species of shrimp in the genus Hippolyte are known from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The California green shrimp is a very slender, green glass-like shrimp up to about 20 mm (0.8 in) in length, with females generally being larger than males. The carapace is extended forwards as a long rostrum.[3][4]
Distribution
editThe California green shrimp is known from the western coast of North America where it ranges in shallow water from Bodega Bay to the Gulf of California, but is uncommon southwards from Elkhorn Slough. It inhabits calm waters, hiding by day under rocks and in cracks.[4]
Ecology
editThe California green shrimp is a specialist feeder on the eel grass Zostera marina. It has been shown that it recognises clumps of eel grass visually, preferentially moving towards dark model clumps contrasting with their pale backgrounds. A pattern of vertical stripes in the model is more attractive than a plain-coloured, rectangular object, and a model with narrow stripes is more attractive than one with wide stripes.[5] This shrimp congregates in large numbers at night around eel grass clumps, swimming in and out among the individual blades.[4]
This species engages in rafting, being conveyed across the surface of the sea, carried along on buoyant objects such as floating clumps of seaweed, and this aids in the shrimp's dispersal to new locations.[6]
References
edit- ^ De Grave, Sammy (2010). "Hippolyte californiensis Holmes, 1895". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ "Hippolyte californiensis Holmes, 1895". SeaLifeBase. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ a b Terossi, Mariana; De Grave, Sammy; Mantelatto, Fernando L. (2017). "Global biogeography, cryptic species and systematic issues in the shrimp genus Hippolyte Leach, 1814 (Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae) by multimarker analyses". Scientific Reports. 7 (6697): 6697. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-06756-1. PMC 5532279. PMID 28751634.
- ^ a b c Ricketts, Edward Flanders; Calvin, Jack; Hedgpeth, Joel Walker; Phillips, David W. (1985). Between Pacific Tides. Stanford University Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-8047-2068-7.
- ^ Barry, C.K. (1974). "Role of form vision in habitat selection of the grass shrimp Hippolyte californiensis". Marine Biology. 26 (3): 261–270. doi:10.1007/BF00389256.
- ^ Gibson, R.N.; Atkinson, R.J.A.; Gordon, J.D.M. (2005). Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review. CRC Press. pp. 316–319. ISBN 978-1-4200-3744-9.