This comes from streaming waters that drain
sometimes significant quantities of sand towards the bay, from free-bottomed gutters still
numerous in the urban landscape of Abidjan. These sediments, which form a deposit in issues
was commonly
encountered in the upstream stations and absent in the middle stream and permanent pool
stations. No shrimp specimen was collected in the middle stream station, while Desmocaris
trispinosa was sampled in all the other sampling sites. It was the only one species registered
in the permanent pool stations