Florida stone crab – (INVERT-shrimp) See facts

Name of animal-plant: Florida stone crab

Species name: Menippe mercenaria

Animal type: INVERT

Subcategory: shrimp

 

Fact:

All animals and plants are given a species name based on a technical term in biological taxnomy. The species name consists of two words and is based on Latin.

Latin-species-two-word-chart

The first part of the name identifies the genus to which the species belongs and  the second part identifies the species within the genus. In this animals case it is: Menippe mercenaria