Lepidophthalmus turneranus

Lepidophthalmus turneranus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Family:	Callianassidae
Genus:	Lepidophthalmus
Species:	L. turneranus
Binomial name
	Lepidophthalmus turneranus; (White, 1861)
Synonyms
	Callianassa turnerana White, 1861; Callianassa krukenbergi Neumann, 1878; Callianassa diademata Ortmann, 1891; Callichirus turneranus (White, 1861);

Lepidophthalmus turneranus (formerly Callianassa turnerana), the Cameroon ghost shrimp, is a species of "ghost shrimp" or "mud lobster" that lives off the coast of West Africa. It occasionally erupts into dense swarms, one of which resulted in the naming of the country Cameroon.

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