divepix - Spotted Cleaner Shrimp

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.