#skeleton shrimps

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Shrimp don't have skeletons, but don't tell that to the skeleton shrimp! The common name for this group of amphipods accurately describes the thin, delicate structure of their bodies, which helps them to effectively hide among seaweeds and corals. Due to their pale, ephemeral appearance, these shrimps are also sometimes known as ghost shrimp!

(Image: A photo of Caprella acanthifera by Chris Isaacs)

[montereybayaquarium]

From the people who brought you chill Krill Waves Radio comes our new KrillER Waves Radio: one hour of skeleton shrimp and metal music to headbang to! 🤘🎵

Skip the relaxing lofi music and unleash your inner metal enthusiast — it’s all about screaming out and banging our heads with skeleton shrimps as we hold tight to the unpredictable currents that we call life.

You’d be a fool to skip this one!

[elizakai]

HORRORDUST BABIES LMAO

Their names are Shrimp, Scamp, and Songpyeon, in that order, i’ll take my leave

(god please don’t take this to seriously)

[bisonwares]

❗LAST CHANCE ❗

LAST DAY - KICKSTARTER ENDING

Make sure to back the project before it's too late! Thank you so much for the support, I can't wait to start shipping these guys out! 💕

Back the Kickstarter here!

[snototter]

A pair of skeleton shrimp (Caprellidae sp.) fighting

by Alexander Semenov

[darksilvania]

Ghost/Water type shrimp pokemon (No official names yet)

They inhabit deep dark waters and can be found inside sunken ships, some people believe they are born from the bones of drown sailors possesed by their own spirits

They are based on the Ghost Shrimp and the Skeleton Shrimp

[wallofbubbles]

Too much brown in my recent uploads, so adding a splash of colour here. A bright pink skeleton shrimp carrying an egg cluster.

Tulamben, Bali (Indonesia), 2023

[shrimp-milf]

SHRIMPBLR EMERGENCY ALERT

⚠️This is NOT a drill ⚠️

Monterey bay aquarium has released a 1 hour megamix of skeleton shrimp headbanging to metal music and it’s SICK as FUCK ‼️

[skelizard]

Here was my part for @bowelfly's 36-person art telephone game. This was soo much fun and so cool to be a part of, it turned out killer, it really told a story! The post with the full chain is here. Please check out everyone's work they're all so damn good. Mine was based off of @tickfleato's piece which I looked at and thought 'I see you've put this shrimp into a situation'. Sorry I turned your pyrosome into a worm.

[vii-spider]

my brain spat out "what if thriller bark was wet instead of creepy" last night and wouldn't let me rest until i did this. brook is a skeleton shrimp fish-man that looks like an Actual skeleton. perona is an """anglerfish""" mermaid (her hair is the lures 🙏). had no fucking clue what to do for kumashi so i just made him the first beast i thought of that wasn't a starfish (bc i didn't want pappagu 2)

[patheticmosasaur1]

tonight's invertebrate........caprella polyacantha

you can throw anything at him and he will endure it!

toss him into the hottest, most skin-melting fluid possible and he will come out unscathed and confused

force him to partake in the most morally defunct biological experiment and he will still be there, unharmed but maybe with a scratch or too

even the most emotionally upsetting event does nothing to him!

how does he do this?? with the power of hope....

...I lied he is aided by an incomprehensible geometric shape older than time itself

..........spookiness rating: 63.85% I don't know how to feel about this

photographs by leslieh

help I'm running out of choices I want to post snails, arachnids n whatnot but I also want to focus on lesser known invertebratesim having a really hard time choosing ehsjgshevsqnsgwcacacgjififrbjtkrkfmrmtmmhjioxixzuhgfaaaaaaaahahhapohihfsfsfsfsffsfssfsfsfdaffafafsfsffsfsfshhhdueuejennbcbcnnckekoepwowhhd

[rodentbloodart]

freebies done during livestream today character belong to their respective owners

[montereybayaquarium]

📣Hey all you shrimps, shramps, and shrumps!📣

Time to shape up your exoskeletons with Shelly Skellie’s Super Short Skeleton Shrimp Sweat Sesh! Join Shelly as she shows her students a scintillating skeleton shrimp-spired exercise!

Skeleton shrimp (Caprella sp.) aren’t your typical shrimp-like crustacean. These abundant amphipods prefer to perch their pereons upon a piece of seaweed, bryozoa, or hydroid, moving about in an inchworm-like fashion with the aid of their grappling-hook-claws, called gnathopods. When the going gets tough, skeleton shrimp can get going, albeit a bit awkwardly — swimming by rapidly bending and straightening their bodies in a series of suspended underwater crunches. 

To eat, they hang on to their home with their back legs and wave their bodies about in the current while swiping for bits of food and detritus. It’s these motions that have inspired Shelly’s newest workout trend — now grab your friends and get ready to have a skeleTON of FUN!

[marinelifecatalogue]

Skeleton Shrimp

Name: Skeleton Shrimp

Scientific Name: Caprella

Family Name: Caprellidae

Location: They can be found in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Antarctic oceans.

Status: Not Evaluated.

Fun Facts:

• The shrimp can only mate if the female is between new exoskeletons. Their offspring hatch as juvenile adults.

• Each type of skeleton shrimp molt at most 20 times in their life span. This means that their life span is roughly a year maximum.

Sources: 🌊 / 🌊

[little-creature-of-the-day]

little creature of the day: japanese skeleton shrimp

he looks evil

image source

[kaehunterart]

had a dream featuring tiny bioluminescent shrimp mermaids (aka “sea fairies”)