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Barred Shrimp

Heptacarpus pugettensis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) victor_laye, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in British Columbia.

Canada	61
British Columbia	61
United States	43
Washington	32
Alaska	15
Oregon	11

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Malacostracans · Malacostraca
Order	Decapods · Decapoda
Family	Thoridae
Genus	Heptacarpus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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