Lebbeus polaris

It is commonly called the polar shrimp or polar lebbeid, and the accepted scientific name is Lebbeus polaris. Older literature may use combinations such as Hippolyte polaris, but WoRMS lists those as synonyms. [World Register of Marine Species](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?id=107521&p=taxdetails)

It has a circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, from Arctic waters south to places such as Shetland, the Hebrides, and Chesapeake Bay. Records also include the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea. [Lebbeus polaris species account](https://www.seawater.no/fauna/arthropoda/polaris.html)

Published species accounts report a range from near the surface to about 930 m, with many observations concentrated between roughly 30 and 300 m. It occurs over hard, sandy, and muddy seabeds. [Lebbeus polaris species account](https://www.seawater.no/fauna/arthropoda/polaris.html)

Older sources often place Lebbeus in Hippolytidae, matching the catalog description, but current ITIS and other modern taxonomic listings place the genus in Thoridae. For a current database label, use Thoridae and keep Hippolytidae as an older classification note. [ITIS taxonomy](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=0096792)