Brachycarpus biunguiculatus Two Claw Shrimp

Brachycarpus biunguiculatus is commonly referred to as Two Claw Shrimp. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

1018 

AphiaID:

107611 

Scientific:

Brachycarpus biunguiculatus 

German:

Doppelscheren-Garnele 

English:

Two Claw Shrimp 

Category:

Rejer 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Palaemonidae (Family) > Brachycarpus (Genus) > biunguiculatus (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Lucas, ), 1846 

Occurrence:

Barbados, Guadeloupe, Alborán Sea (Mediterranean Sea), Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Azores, Bermuda, Bonaire, Circumtropic, Congo, Curacao, Cyprus, European Coasts, French Polynesia, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Hawaii, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Ionian Sea (Mediterranean), Israel, Italy, Levantine Sea (Mediterranean), Liberia, Madeira, Martinique, Netherlands, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific (Ocean), Red Sea, Réunion , South Atlantic, South-Pazific, Sri Lanka, the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey, Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean Sea), Venezuela 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

10 - 190 Meter 

Habitats:

Rocky, hard seabeds, Seawater, Sea water, Stony soils, Underwater caves, Underwater caverns 

Size:

0.79" - 1.97" (2,5cm - 5cm) 

Temperature:

13,3 °F - 84.2 °F (13,3°C - 29°C) 

Food:

No reliable information available 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

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  Brachycarpus biunguiculatus
  Doppelscheren-Garnele

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2004-09-26 14:30:13 

Last edit:

2025-04-11 20:00:32 

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