Freshwater Shrimp

Freshwater Fish of Australia
Part 6 of 6

Invertebrates
Although many are not exported outside the country, Australia sports a wide variety of freshwater invertebrates. You'll find everything from the diminutive fairy shrimp, to mangrove crabs, to the massive crayfish (including the ever popular Yabby). Some of the species are:
   Astacopsis gouldi(Giant Tasmanian crayfish)
   Australatya striolata (Riffle Shrimp)
   Caridina & Macrobrachium species (Freshwater Shrimp)
   Cherax quadricarinatus (Yabby)
   Engaeus Species #1 (Burrowing Crayfish)
   Engaeus Species #2 (Burrowing Crayfish)
   Engaeus Species #3 (Burrowing Crayfish)
   Engaeus Species #4 (Burrowing Crayfish)
   Engaeus Species #5 (Burrowing Crayfish)
   Euastacus diversus (Orbost Spiny Crayfish)
   Euastacus species (Spiny crayfish)
   Fairy Shrimp
   Holthuisana spp (Freshwater Crab)
   Phreatoicidean isopod (Kimberley's Isopod)
   Macrobrachium rosenbergii (Freshwater Shrimp)
   Cherax tenuimanus (Morron)
   Pinnae sp. (Fairy Shrimp)
   Scylla serrata (Mud crab or mangrove crab)
   Shield Shrimp (Triops australiensis)

Plants
Australia harbors many of the freshwater flora found in other parts of the world, as well as a few of it's own unique specimens. Some of the many aquatic plants found in Australia are:
   Aponogeton bullosus
   Ceratophyllum    Demersum (Hornwort)
   Egeria Densa (Elodea Densa)
   Eliocharis R. Br.
   Eleocharis Acicularis (Hair Grass)
   Eriocaulon setaceum
   Hygrophila Difformis (Water Wistera)
   Hygrophila Polysperma (Hygrophila)
   Hygrophila Rosaenerva (Pink Hygrophila)
   Limnophyla R. Br
   Maidenia rubra
   Ondinea purpurea
   Sagittaria Natans
   Rotala occultifolia
   Triclochin striata
   Vallisneria Asiatica (Thin Vallisneria)
   Vallisneria Contorta (Corkscrew Vallisneria)
   Vallisneria Gigantea (Giant Vallisneria)