Here we have a forum dedicated to the little guy who we all know and love and/or eat, the shrimp. There are many kinds of shrimp, and I have seen....at least five kinds of shrimp, the common/pink/coon shrimp, the ghost*1/mud/bay shrimp (like a small lobster with a big and small claw, either white and pink or with color to match its rocky hiding spots), mantis shrimp (just one in an aquarium, but I'll never forget it), opposum/skeleton shrimp (very small and bent), and the freshwater&ghost*2 shrimp (small, normal shaped shrimp that are transparent and abundant EVERYWHERE!). Those are the five kinds I have SEEN in the WILD, but there are MANY more kinds of shrimp, like cave dwellers, other burrowers who even live with fish, krill, and many more! What shrimp have you seen?

Oh, and the black line on their backs is NOT the 'bacon strip', its their digestive tract! I saw a fool of a cook say it was the 'bacon strip' and to cook them until it popped, truly a waste of time and shrimp, and a foolish and ill-taught cook!

*1 this is a medium sized white and pink burrowing shrimp that lives in a pit it makes and has a dominant crushing claw and a smaller grasping claw. It is found in shallow, calm waters in bays, estuaries, bayous, and marshes in the sand.

*2 This is a small, less than 1 inch long, transparent dwarf of a common pink shrimp that grows rapidly and can be found as an egg smaller than a grain of sand to about 3/4 of an inch in calm, salt, brackish, and even fresh waters around the world. There are, no doubt, different species and names for different populations, and the ghost shrimp is also common in the pet trade.