A revision of the genus Alpheus revealed 53 nominal species reported from the eastern Pacific. Of these, 23 species are considered valid and an additional 21 new species are described, resulting in 44 ...

The pistol shrimp is a remarkable little creature. It is capable of producing a noise louder than a gunshot and generating heat reportedly as hot as the surface of the sun. Yet it is only an inch or ...

Knowlton, Nancy and Mills, D. E. K. 1992. "The systematic importance of color and color pattern: evidence for complexes of sibling species of snapping shrimp (Caridea: Alpheidae: Alpheus) from the ...

Pistol shrimps have one larger, modified claw. When they open it and snap it shut, it produces a fast-moving vortex ring. The vortex ring produces a cavitation bubble, which collapses, producing heat, ...