The Qingdao goby is also known as the mayfly.

The goby, scientifically known as the "mayfly", is a burrowing animal, with each mayfly shrimp having a burrow up to half a meter deep. Thirty or forty years ago, Shaling Zhuang station to the Cangkou back sea between the beach is rich in shrimp tiger. This kind of shrimp grows mainly in the mudflats, the meat is crystalline and bare, fresh and delicious, the general head is not delicious, with a slight earthy flavor.

Old Qingdao has a special affection for the shrimp tiger. Because of the Jiaozhou Bay shrimp tiger, many Qingdao people in the 1950s and 1960s through the difficult times.

Expanded Information:

1. The cephalothoracic armor of the shrimp mayflies is not very large, only large enough to wrap around to the back of the head and the first four segments of the thorax. With over 400 species worldwide and ranging in color from brown to light red, this order is an important predator of the benthic seabed in the tropics and subtropics.

2, numerous common names, including: Pipi shrimp (widely known because of mainland China's Internet buzzword), 攋 urine shrimp (commonly written as Setsui shrimp, Lai urine shrimp, piss shrimp, libation shrimp (Cantonese)), mantis shrimp, shrimp crawler (or shrimp rake), shrimp dog bomb, crawling shrimp (or grubby shrimp), shrimp tiger, shrimp monkeys, mouth shrimp mayfly, rich shrimps, lute shrimps, and so on. In ancient times, the Assyrians called the "sea locusts", Australians also called "shrimp killer.