Husbandry
This species has been collected under rocks, in the seagrass Posidonia, and in clumps of the tunicate Pyura stolonifera
Color variable: body dark (green, purplish, or blue) with white mottling and spots; brown eggs, large chela fingers tipped with orange.
Snapping shrimps or pistol shrimps are immediately distinguished from other families by having one claw much larger than the other, the larger claw cylindrical and with a parrot-beak-like finger.
Synonym: Alpheus novae-zealandiae Miers, 1876
Color variable: body dark (green, purplish, or blue) with white mottling and spots; brown eggs, large chela fingers tipped with orange.
Snapping shrimps or pistol shrimps are immediately distinguished from other families by having one claw much larger than the other, the larger claw cylindrical and with a parrot-beak-like finger.
Synonym: Alpheus novae-zealandiae Miers, 1876
