Species Profile
Lucifer
Ghost shrimp
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassCrustacea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Marine planktonic crustacean found in open waters.
Known for transparency and reduced appendages.
Size & Structure
01
Small, slender body
02
Nearly transparent
03
Reduced thoracic appendages
04
Elongated abdomen
Lucifer — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete digestion
- Nervous system
- Ventral nerve cord
- Excretory organ
- Green glands
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic (stenohaline)
- Circulatory type
- Open circulatory system
- Development type
- Indirect development
- Respiratory type
- Branchial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Planktonic food source for fishes
Part of marine plankton community
Transfers energy in pelagic food chains
Economic Importance
Used in plankton studies
Indicator of marine productivity
Ecological research importance