mystry shrimp

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Dusty2
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mystry shrimp

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Found this guy on a night dive in Port Townsend. He has got to be the weirdest shrimp I have seen. Looks like he was throwen together from spare parts.
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Re: mystry shrimp

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It's a deep blade shrimp, Spirontocaris prionota. They come in a wide variety of colors, patterns, and degrees of grunginess.
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Re: mystry shrimp

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Sheesh, it looks like he hardly has any antennae or anything!
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Re: mystry shrimp

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Man Dusty2, I have to come do some diving with you. You always find some wild stuff that I would love to see.
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Chevayea wrote:Man Dusty2, I have to come do some diving with you. You always find some wild stuff that I would love to see.
Any time! Down here or up in PT which where I find allot of the unusual stuff.
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