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Stout Coastal Shrimp

Heptacarpus brevirostris

2,512 observations in the source records

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What the records say

2,512 observations are recorded in the imported source snapshot. Observation source

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in British Columbia.

United States	1,136
Canada	750
British Columbia	750
Washington	688
Alaska	238
California	100
Oregon	46

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
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