About this species
The mottled snapping prawn is a species of snapping shrimp found in the Indo-West Pacific oceans.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Mottled snapping prawn”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 1 records
- February: 2 records
- March: 1 records
- April: 1 records
- May: 3 records
- June: 1 records
- July: 1 records
- August: 0 records
- September: 3 records
- October: 6 records
- November: 2 records
- December: 0 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 6–69 m · Deepest record: 68.5 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 18–30 °C
Names and classification
Names in 1 more languages
- Simplified Chinese
- 雙齒鼓蝦
Other scientific names: Alpheus dissodontonotus, Alpheus tridentatus, Palaemon bidens
Similar species
Petroglyph shrimpAlpheus deuteropus
Coral snapping shrimpAlpheus lottini
Brownbar snapping shrimpAlpheus lobidens
- Flathead snapping shrimp
Alpheus bisincisus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 76 open-data records from 1811 to 2010.
- Species data updated October 26, 2026.
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