Hey everyone! On this episode of Petri Dish we ask the question everyone has been asking since time immemorial -- what the fuck is a shrimp? Like seriously, what is that shit? No, I mean, I ask because there are so many things called shrimp -- fairy shrimp, mantis shrimp, seed shrimp, and so on... And while they look kind of similar to one another, they really aren't all that related, separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
But they all belong in the big group of animals called 'Crustaceans', along with crabs and lobsters! And insects. Wait, what? Yeah, this group of animals is a total mess, so let's talk about it!
References:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982219304865
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6501934/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202100020
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1467803920301146