Conjoined twin adult shrimp (Decapoda: Penaeidae)
Date
1988
Authors
Williams AB
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Abstract
A two-headed roughback shrimp, Trachypenaeus similis (Smith) was caught at the entrance to Galveston Bay, TX. The specimen is composed of two cephalothoraxes (heads) perfectly aligned with the median sagittal plane and conjoined posteriorly to an unpaired, normally segmented abdomen. The lower cephalothorax is that of an adult female
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595-597
Keywords
abnormalities, animal morphology, ASW,Galveston Bay, Decapoda, fish, Galveston Bay, head, O 1030 ANIMALIA - INVERTEBRATES, Penaeidae, Q1 01283 Taxonomy and morphology, Trachypenaeus similis, USA