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Spotted Cleaner Shrimp

Aspect:

Brown and white dominantly coloured shrimp, with banded front legs and light brown-and-white roundel-adorned tail and long brown-banded white antennae.

Body itself is tranlucid with tiny purple dots, main white legs are brown-banded and tipped with blue/purple claws while other legs are purple-banded white.

Population: Common.
Notable feature: May be mistaken for the smaller Squat Anemone Shrimp (q.v.), which has much shorter antennae and far more discrete legs.
Environment: Typically found in giant anemones.
Behaviour: Will usually try to hide if approached too closely.
  • French designation: Crevette du Yucatan
  • Latin designation: Periclemines yuacatanicus
  • Creole designation: -
  • Latin family: Palaemonidae
  • Size (cm): 2.5
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