shrimp study

Shrimp studies became more important when a new large shrimp was found in the Bronx River. The type of species of that shrimp couldn’t be identified. The purpose of the project was to figure out what type of shrimp it was as well as where it could be found along the river.

The basic shrimp has three main body parts, the head, carapace, and the abdomen. A distinguishing mark on the shrimp’s head is the rostrum, a horn like extension coming out of its head. It also has one long antenna extending from the face. Connected to the carapace are the walking legs or pereiopods. The legs include six simple ones and four that have movable claws. The abdomen contains the pleopods (swimming legs), the telson (tall fan), and uropods that are the last pair of legs.

Shrimp are very important to our river because they increase bio diversity. Biodiversity is the variety of life on earth, in order to keep the ecosystem stable the different amount species in our estuary have to be higher.