White Leg Shrimp

The White Leg Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) has white long legs and is a medium sized shrimp. It uses legs to keep it’s gill clean(which is a functional adaptation). They can go from brackish water to saltwater(which is a functional adaptation). They can also survive climate change very well which makes it easy to take them to different areas.The White Leg Shrimp’s habitat is the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Their prey is Plankton, amphipods, and nematodes. Their predators are humans, grass shrimp,and sheepshead minnows.The White Leg Shrimp has bilateral symmetry,it’s also a heterotrophic and exothermic. The order of classification for the White Leg Shrimp is…       

Domain:Eukaryota

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Arthropoda

Class:Malacostraca

Order:Decapoda

Family:Penaeidae

Genus:Litopenaeus

Species:Vannamei

Lastly an interesting fact about the White Leg Shrimp is people farm it and eat it for food.