1. WETLAND WILDLIFE! Shrimp BY: ISABEL, JASMIN, AND PAIGE Diamond back terrapin

2. Shrimp Fast Facts • Scientific Name for shrimp is Litopenaeus setiferus • White Shrimp are commonly found in Louisiana • Common name: lake shrimp or fall shrimp • A shrimp is a crustacean (has an exoskeleton) • Different from close cousins such as crabs because mainly swimmers not crawlers • Can live in temperate, tropical, salty, and fresh water • Coldwater shrimp are protandric hermaphrodites, meaning, they undergo a change of gender in mid-life, starting out as males and then becoming females in their fourth year of life

3. Shrimp Description • Some shrimp can grow up to 9 inches although many are smaller • Hard external shell • Must shed shell in order to grow Shrimp Diet • Shrimp will eat most animals or plants that they encounter at the bottom. • Common food items are worms, amphipods, nematodes, crustacean larvae, isopods, copepods, small fishes, grass shrimp, fiddler crabs and square-back crabs. • Shrimp are also known to be cannibalistic.

4. Diamondback Terrapin • Facts: • The females are bigger than the males • They live to about 40 • They can lay about 3-18 eggs per nest • The scientific name is Malaclemys Terrapin • Behavior: • Females become mature at the ages 8-10 years (The males mature earlier) • The turtles nest during the day • Over winter they just lay at the bottom of estuaries, creeks, and salt marshes

5. Diamond Back Terrapin • Description: • Top shell ranges from medium gray or brown to nearly black • Diamond shaped markings on the plates of there top shell • Their skin has dark spots • Feet are strongly webbed • The adult males are smaller then females in weight and size • males: 4-6 inches • females: 6-9 inches • Females also have wider heads and shorter tails than males

6. Terrapin Diet Crustaceans: - Crabs - Snails - Shrimp - Mussels - Clams Fish Worms Insects Mollusks Terrapins are omnivores and messy eaters, too!

7. Brown Pelican Female Pelican Male Pelican • Description: • Hard to tell male & female apart • Males are slightly bigger than females • Body is large and heavy • Long bill with extensible pouch • Wingspan: 200cm (79in.) • Weight: 70.6-176.5 ounces • Its pouch can hold 2-3 times more that its stomach can hold

8. Brown Pelican Behavior: They live in flocks with males and females When flying they fly in V formation or in straight line Fly with their necks folded against their shoulders Diet: They eat fish Examples of fish theyeat: menhaden. herring, mullet, sheepshead, silversides

9. Flounder • Description: • have an oval shape body • have a small mouth and a pointy snout • have a smooth body except for a few scales that are rough • their dorsal and anal fin have lumps on them • skin color is a dull brown to a grayish-green, they sometimes have orange spots, and have a white underbelly • grow to 50cm in length • Short-cut tail • have two eyes on one side • weigh 1-21 pounds • have sharp teeth

10. Flounder Behavior: Used to just sitting on the bottom of the ocean floor where they blend in with the ground Diet: Most eat crustaceans When they are older they normally eat fish Facts: They can also be called doormat, flat-fish, Mat, Fluke, or Flattie

11. Why do these animals live in the wetlands? • Shrimp: Pelican: Flounder: Diamond Back Terrapin: • Wetlands provide a large and complex food source for all animals • Shelter and hiding places from predators • Clean drinking water • Act as nursery for young shrimp and shelter for juvenile shrimp • Provide breeding and nesting sites and a place to rear young pelicans • Provide spawning and nursery habitats for flounder • Provide nesting for Diamond Back Terrapin

12. This PowerPoint is dedicated to: The endagered wetlands and wetland animals

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