### seafood | shellfish | univalve:

Sea slug
* Many sea slugs are able to consume stinging cells of other animals like coral.
* Most sea slugs feed on plants
  - have chemicals
* Most sea slugs have female organs
  - sex organs
  - nasty chemicals
* Some sea slugs consume cnidarian prey
  - develop gills
* Some sea slugs have glands
  - salivary glands
  - warty or smooth backs and have no visible gill organ
  - look like leaves
  - produce up to a million eggs, others only a few
* are also hermaphroditic, both male and female at the same time
  - hermaphroditic, maintaining both male and female organs in one animal
  - notoriously fussy eaters and can have a tough time obtaining food
  - weapons
* comes in every imaginable color combination and in an amazing assortment of shapes.
  - such poor eyesight they can barely distinguish light and shadow, much less patterns
  - translucent bodies that have just about every color on the rainbow
* leave slime trails, just as slugs and snails do on land.

### seafood:

Shrimp
* Most shrimp are omnivorous , but some are specialised for particular modes of feeding.
* Most shrimp has body shells
  - eye sight
  - hard shells
  - shrimps are scavengers but others are active predators
* Some shrimp can mature directly as females.
* Some shrimp eats dead fish
* Some shrimp has appendages
  - cholesterol
  - claws
  - legs
  - noses
  - powerful claws
  - makes up diets
* Some shrimps also fluoresce, or light up, as a way to signal each other
  - are burrowers and use their pleopods to excavate
  - turn a brighter color during their summer mating seasons
* appear to be no different now from their fossilized counterparts.
* are common coral reef crustaceans that come in many sizes and colors
  - fresh water and marine, crayfish strictly fresh water, and lobsters strictly marine
  - often bright red, which in the deep sea has the same effect as being black
  - typically scavengers, specialists in feed- ing on bits of detritus on the bottom
* depend on a mix of fresh and salt water for to survive.
* is crustaceans
  - located in plates
  - shellfishs
* provide high quality protein, vitamins and minerals and are low in calorie and fat content.
* provides benefits.
* remove ectoparasites from fishes in temperate waters.
* reproduce using sexual reproduction
  - via eggs
* swim in energetic burst, surging up from the river bed and diving back down just as quick
  - small schools

### seafood | shrimp:

Adult shrimp
* are filter feeding benthic animals that live close to the bottom.
+ Shrimp: Decapods :: Seafood
  * Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals that live close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important food source for larger animals from fish to whales. They have a high tolerance to toxins in polluted areas, and may contribute to high toxin levels in their predators. They play important roles in the food chain and are important food sources for larger animals from fish to whales.

Cooked shrimp
* have red color in shells
  - shells, firm meat, and a mild odor
* turn a reddish to pink color.

Fresh shrimp
* are firm in texture and have a mild odor.
* is marinated in lime juice, salt and chile.

Frozen shrimp
* are fine, so are frozen blood worms.
* constitute the highest foreign exchange earner amongst marine products.

Ghost shrimp
* are among the prey items of the grey smooth-hound
  - particularly elongate, soft bodied and usually very pale in colour
* cause the oysters to sink in the mud and die.

Large shrimp
* Some large shrimp has cholesterol.
* are able to avoid predation by rapid movement but large daphnids are easily caught.

Mantis shrimp
* More mantis shrimp are spearers than are smashers.
* Some mantis shrimp has claws

Northern shrimp
* are protandrous hermaphrodites.
* begin life as males.