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From: Wade Doak
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Date: 21-06-10
Time: 15:17
Nice shots Julia! [ 'Canterbury' is the wreck sunk in Deep Water Cove, Bay of Is.] This shrimp looks to be Lysmata morelandi.
Here is material from earlier postings on this site in 2002. It is also on my Poor Knights Library disc, diagram by Grant Couchman.
Red shrimp returns PK: From: Wade Doak Date: 12-Apr-2002 Time: 11:47
The red shrimp Hippolysmata morelandi Painting by Grant Couchman Comments The red shrimp Hippolysmata morelandi has returned to the Knights. Another intermittent immigrant that may become permanent with global warming. It was very abundant in early seventies. First described from B.I.in 1961 by Moreland. Red with white spots. Six mm. Cleans morays.Hides in Centrostephanus urchins.Large black eyes glow in dark. Illustrated in my PK LIBRARY- inverts diagrams/crusts.
Red Shrimp/PK From: Dr Rick Webber-Te Papa Museum Date: 21-08-02 Time: 10:47 Comments RED SHRIMP [see tiem Red Shrimp Returns below: 12-4-02] "The red shrimp you call Hippolysmata morelandi is now called Lysmata morelandi (Yaldwyn, 1971). Note too that it was described by Yaldwyn rather than Moreland who it was named after (the rules of nomenclature don't let you name a species after yourself). So you see I have had a look at your web site and I will be back at some point because it's interesting and I will feel compelled to insert comments. Red Shrimp Eyes in the Dark I have had a think about black eyes shining in the dark. A physiological problem I haven't got to the bottom of but I do know there is a variety of pigments in compound eyes including that which makes the eyes look black and perhaps also fluorescent pigment or light emitting bacteria. I have also heard that the deep-sea vent shrimps have shining eyes but teh specimens I have here have very little pigment in their eyes so they are not black but the same colour as surrounding cuticle. Makes them look quite peculiar. Dr Rick Webber Te Papa Museum
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