ghost shrimp

American  

noun

1. a shrimplike crustacean of the genus Callianassa, of the Pacific coast of North America, having a pinkish, transparent body.

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Example Sentences

From several types of frogs and a Madagascan dragonfly, to a ghost shrimp and prehistoric sea creature, the list is impressive.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2023

Calambokidis has been looking into what draws the Sounders to the area: ghost shrimp burrowed in the intertidal Snohomish River delta.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2021

Typically the whales turn on their right side and put their head down into the sediment to pulse the mud against their baleen plate, and filter out the ghost shrimp, a meaty native crustacean.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2021

Once they reached the mudflats, they put their heads down in about 2 meters of water and stirred up the sediment, sucking in both grit and thousands of ghost shrimp in one great, easy gulp.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 26, 2017

But instead of our parents’ pods, the room’s back wall is a stack of beehive beds, each covered in a warming blanket for a thin-skinned ghost shrimp.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera