Alpheus rapacida

Alpheus rapacida
Alpheus rapacida and Cryptocentrus strigilliceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Alpheidae
Genus: Alpheus
Species: A. rapacida
Binomial name
Alpheus rapacida
De Man, 1908 [1]

Alpheus rapacida, is a species of snapping shrimp of the family Alpheidae. It is found at depths of up to 56 metres (184 ft) across the Indo-West Pacific,[2] with a few recent observations from the Mediterranean coasts of Israel and Turkey as a Lessepsian migrant.[3]

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