Upogebia deltaura

Taxobox | name = "Upogebia deltaura"

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image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
familia = Upogebiidae
genus = "Upogebia"
species = "U. deltaura"
binomial = "Upogebia deltaura"
binomial_authority = (Leach, 1815) [ITIS|ID=98210|taxon="Upogebia deltaura"]
synonyms = "Gebia deltaura" Leach, 1815 cite web |url=http://www.tmu.uit.no/crustikon/Decapoda/Decapoda2/Species_index/Upogebia_deltaura.htm |title="Upogebia deltaura" (Leach, 1815) |work=Crustikon - Crustacean photographic website |publisher=Tromsø Museum – University of Tromsø |year=2003 |author=Cédric d'Udekem d'Acoz]

"Upogebia deltaura" is a species of mud lobster from the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

It is found in the eastern Atlantic from Sognefjord, Norway to Spain, and throughout the Mediterranean Sea as well as in the Black Sea cite journal |quotes=no |year=2000 |title=On the occurrence of Thalassinidea (Decapoda) in Norwegian Waters |author=Marit E. Christiansen |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=230–237 |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0278-0372%28200006%2920%3A2%3C230%3AOTOOT%28%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R] . It may also extend as far as Togo, West Africa , but possible confusion with other taxa makes this difficult to assess cite journal |quotes=no |title="Upogebia deltaura" (Crustacea: Thalassinidea) in Clyde Sea maerl beds, Scotland |journal=Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom |volume=79 |year=1999 |pages=871–880 |author=J. M. Hall-Spencer & R. J. A. Atkinson |doi=10.1017/S0025315498001039] . It lives in burrows at up to 190 m depth , and will make use of burrows dug by other animals . "U. deltaura" is the most abundant large crustacean and the deepest burrowing (up to 68 cm) large animal in Scottish maerl beds, and will reconstruct its burrow after disturbance by storms or trawling .

The animal is up to 100 mm (4 in) long, and is a dirty yellow colour, tinged with green, white or red cite web |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/BIS/crustacea.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=175 |title="Upogebia deltaura" (Leach) |work=Macrobenthos of the North Sea: Crustacea |author=M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo |publisher=Universiteit van Amsterdam |accessdate=2007-08-31] . It is often confused with other species which it closely resembles , such as "Upogebia stellata", which has additional ocular spines and a narrower abdomen . The mouthparts are densely setose, which helps to filter particles out of the water [cite journal |quotes=no |journal=Journal of Natural History |year=1999 |volume=33 |pages=1461–1485 |title=Comparison of the mouthpart setal fringes of seven species of mud-shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea) |author=Eunice Eunice H. Pinn, Lois A. Nickell, Andrew Rogerson & R. James A. Atkinson |url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tnah/1999/00000033/00000010/art00004 |doi=10.1080/002229399299851] .

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