How many legs do shrimps have?
They have five pair of legs on thorax, which are jointed and are used for walking. There are five more pair legs on the abdomen for swimming purposes. There are three pairs of maxillae for feeding appendages all these legs are segmented. These are omnivores. They eat plant and small animals. The Size of shrimp ranges from one inch to 9 inches. They have a mostly very thin, smooth, hard, exoskeleton. Their colors vary according to their place.
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16 Comments
E11-Hitman
Please note that the answer here is only correct when talking about ghost shrimp, or glass shrimp, which is a freshwater crustacean popular with fish keepers. The question should have been more specific about the type of shrimp.
Richard D. Boyle
Question should elicit a straightforward answer but it does not. The answer is not burdened with an excess of clarity.
John McLardie
Vague question. Since they are classed as decapods they have 10 legs - end of. The pleopods (swimmerets) do not count as legs in the true sense of the word. Unless, of course, you're trying to re-write the classification of crustacea.
Susan McInnis Paradis
shrimp is both singular and plural. there is no need for an s at the end. and it's 10 legs
Blairly21
Very convoluted question and answer. The answer is not correct, so I put 10 for main legs of use for walking and swimming.
klmilles
Clones don't seem to count or use references.
Allan McIntosh
If they’re decapods wouldn’t they have ten legs?
Rafi Manory
The answer is 10, end of story.
Pauline Davison
I thought they were decapods which have ten legs.
wok
Shrimp have five pairs of jointed legs on the thorax used for walking and five pairs of swimming legs. A shrimp also has three pairs of feeding appendages. 26 total.
Pat Askew
Most have 8 "pairs" of legs which would be 16. If you go with 5+5+3 then that is 26. Badly worded question and none of the answers would appear to be correct.
pabjetster
5 pairs for walking + 5 pairs for swimming + 3 pairs for feeding does not equal 20. By my count it equals 26.
James Steven Willis
CaliBatgurl , Shrimps ! A pet peeve of mine. More than half here in South Georgia say that, screeching on a blackboard. Nice to meet you, you’re always near the top.
Naked Kitty Slave
Guess the three pairs of feeding appendages don't count here. Not to mention I've seen it all now. Shrimps!? Seriously!? Facepalm...
g sanborn
How many legs do shrimp not shrimps and your answer is bogus. Legs that are for walking? Or legs for swimming? Come on. Get real. Why capitalize the word size? IS ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION HERE?