Deatiled information needed on L. wurdemanni for import perm

[AnotherGoldenTeapot]

I've decided I will pay to have the peppermint shrimp considered for import into New Zealand.

This will cost be either $100US or $1000US. The former is for a "fast track" approval which can happen in cases where a new organisms clearly presents little risk.

I need to locate some information on the shrimp, preferably in published scientific litreature. This needs to include the shrimps geographic distribution, its habitat, tempreatures it will tolerate etc. Some of this I can find on the net, but that's not really good enough for this purpose.

I assume there are also no CITES "problems" with this shrimp?

The water in New Zealand drops to 10 celcius or lower during the winter months. Hopefully I'll be able to find proof that the shrimp would be dead-as-door-nail at that tempreature. If that's the case then I will hopefully be able to get away with the $100 approval.

I'm reasonably hopeful of success since two other Lysmata species shrimp are allowed already - the cleaner and the skunk.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Just the contact details of somone who *might* help would be great.

Thanks.

 

[Sea Critter]

Hi,
For the detailed info you are looking for, one source of info might be Junda Lin from Florida Institute of Technology. He has been doing some work with marine ornamental shrimp and had a Sea Grant project as well. Here is an email address,although not sure if it is still the current one: [email protected]. You might check the wb page for Marine Ornamentals 2001, www.ifas.ufl.edu/~conferweb/MO. I think he is presenting, and there may be an email address posted there.
Ron Shimek may have info also!

Good luck,

Teresa
www.sea-critters.com