New Zealand pistol prawn

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New Zealand pistol prawn
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Alpheidae
Genus: Alpheus
Species: A. novaezelandiae
Binomial name
Alpheus novaezelandiae
Miers, 1876

The New Zealand pistol prawn, Alpheus novaezelandiae, also known locally as snapping shrimp, is a species of snapping shrimp endemic to the coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

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