California Academy of Sciences, Water Planet Gallery
The heart of the Steinhart Aquarium, Water Planet focuses on the universality of water wherever there is life, investigating the adaptations by organisms to live in the myriad niches resulting from water's many differences in chemistry, abundance or scarcity, temperature, and motion.
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Paguridae
Paguridae is a family of hermit crabs of the order Decapoda. It contains 542 species in over 70 genera:
Hermit Crabs
Pagurus is a genus of hermit crabs in the family Paguridae. Like other hermit crabs, their abdomen is not calcified and they use snail shells as portable homes. These marine decapod crustaceans are omnivorous, but mostly prey on small animals and scavenge carrion. Trigonocheirus and Pagurixus used to be considered subgenera of Pagurus, but the former is ...more ↓
Pandalus
Pandalus is a genus of shrimp in the family Pandalidae. Members of the genus are medium sized and live on or near the seabed. Some species are the subject of commercial fisheries and are caught by trawling. One species, Pandalus montagui, lives in association with the reef-building polychaete worm, Sabellaria spinulosa.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp
Odontodactylus scyllarus, known as the peacock mantis shrimp, harlequin mantis shrimp, painted mantis shrimp, or clown mantis shrimp, is a large mantis shrimp native to the Indo-Pacific from Guam to East Africa.
Peacock-tail Anemone Shrimp
Periclimenes brevicarpalis, the Glass Anemone Shrimp, is a species of shrimp belonging to the family Palaemonidae.
Peppermint Shrimp
Lysmata wurdemanni, commonly known as the peppermint shrimp, is a species of shrimp.
Caridina
Caridina is a genus of freshwater atyid shrimp. They are widely found in tropical or subtropical water in Asia, Oceania and Africa. They are filter-feeders, collector-gatherers and omnivorous scavengers. They range from 0.9–9.8 mm (C. cantonensis) to 1.2–7.4 mm (C. serrata) in carapace length.
Stenopus
Stenopus is a genus of swimming decapod crustaceans containing eleven species, including Stenopus hispidus, a common aquarium pet. Stenopus contains the following species:
common emperor scorpion
The emperor scorpion, Pandinus imperator, is a species of scorpion native to Africa. It is one of the largest scorpions in the world and lives for 6–8 years. Its body is black, but glows pastel green or blue under ultraviolet light. It is a popular species in the pet trade, and is protected by CITES.
