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White Shrimp

White Shrimp, Litopenaeus.  The White Shrimp can be up to 25 cm, it has 5pairs of legs but it uses only 3 for walking.  The body of the white shrimp is bluish-white in color with slightly pink sides and tail flippers that are black with green and yellow margins. They have really long antennae, also they have 10 walking legs and 10 swimming legs that they use to swim and crawl.The Domain is Eukaryote and the kingdom is Animalia. Phylum is Arthropoda and the class is malacostraca. Order is decapoda and the family is Penaeidae . Genus is Litopenaeus and species is setiferus. The White shrimp lives in warm shallow water with muddy bottoms from New York to Florida. A Fun fact is that over 5 billion pounds of shrimp are produced every year. The White Shrimp has bilateral symmetry which means if we cut into two halves it would have the same structure on each side. A functional adaptation is that it uses its legs to keep it’s gill clean. A structural adaptation is that it has a really large claw. A behavioral is that there are more than 2,000 unknown species of shrimp living in saltwater and freshwater. The white shrimp eats blue crab and grass shrimp. The white shrimp is a heterotroph which means they eat other meats or plants. It is also exothermic which mens it's cold blooded. I hope you learned about White shrimp!!