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Pasiphaea
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Pasiphaea

Pasiphaea is a genus of caridean (true) shrimp in the family Pasiphaeidae found from the Arctic to the Antarctic and living in the mesopelagic to bathypelagic zones. It contains the economically significant Japanese glass shrimp (P. japonica), which has been fished for over a century and a half.

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11 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Pink Glass Shrimp

speciesPasiphaea multidentata

Crimson Pasiphaeid

speciesPasiphaea tarda

White glass shrimp

speciesPasiphaea sivado

Pacific Glass Shrimp

speciesPasiphaea pacifica

Japanese glass shrimp

speciesPasiphaea japonica

Pasiphaea americana

speciesPasiphaea americana

Pasiphaea chacei

speciesPasiphaea chacei

Pasiphaea emarginata

speciesPasiphaea emarginata

Pasiphaea sirenkoi

speciesPasiphaea sirenkoi

Pasiphaea merriami

speciesPasiphaea merriami

Pasiphaea barnardi

speciesPasiphaea barnardi

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 248514.