Sea Grass Yabbies ?

[bluefin]

When I was a kid we used to pump yabbies on the sand flats, but also stomp in the mud of the ribbon weed beds to dig up a green yabby.   Anyone know what they are called please ?

It is also why I use green creature SP,s over weed beds !  

[Green Hornet]

Good question, I’m keen to know as well. We’ve always called them nippers and the pink ones yabbies, though I know that’s not their correct name.

Though much harder to gather, they’ll always outfish their pink cousins when times are tough.

[Yowie]

Always called them green nippers as well. A slightly tougher shell than pink nippers.

[dirvin21]

I've always known them as a green nipper, I think they are a type of pistol shrimp

[Green Hornet]

After a quick google search, the best I can come up with is some type of Alpheus species.

[noelm]

We used to call them “clickers” or just green nippers, used to get lots of them near the boat ramp at the entrance to the Shoalhaven, great bait and usually caught the biggest Whiting when everything else caught nothing.

Edited August 23, 2023 by noelm

[fragmeister]

Is this the one?

https://portphillipmarinelife.net.au/species/3840

 

[bluefin]

Fragmeister, It has been many years since I held one !   They were more like a shrimp with their hard shell.  Could very well be! well done !  

[dirvin21]

2 hours ago, fragmeister said:

Is this the one?

https://portphillipmarinelife.net.au/species/3840

 

They're the things I remember 

[JimT]

use to get heaps around the Cooks River turning over rocks around the low tide waterline

Jim

[Yowie]

2 hours ago, fragmeister said:

Is this the one?

https://portphillipmarinelife.net.au/species/3840

 

That is it.

[Yowie]

6 hours ago, dirvin21 said:

I've always known them as a green nipper, I think they are a type of pistol shrimp

Have heard the same name years ago.

[Blackfish]

9 hours ago, dirvin21 said:

I've always known them as a green nipper, I think they are a type of pistol shrimp

I knew them by a very similar name,Pistol Yabbies.

[noelm]

The ones we used to get in the ribbon weed were much darker, and had a very hard shell, but were great bait if fished along the weed bed edges.

[Yowie]

1 hour ago, noelm said:

The ones we used to get in the ribbon weed were much darker, and had a very hard shell, but were great bait if fished along the weed bed edges.

The nippers I collected in Lake Illawarra as a kid were always the dark green colour, and hard shelled.

[wazatherfisherman]

We used to get plenty in the Parramatta River also, just by turning rocks over amongst the weed. Always called them green nippers or pistol prawns as everyone has said. Just about everything eats them, even Luderick. No collecting allowed in the river these days