Marine Shrimp, Part 2
38 entries in the Marine Shrimp, Part 2 compendium.
Palaemon affinisEndemic New Zealand tide-pool shrimp with transparent, striped body.Palaemon cummingiA blind, colorless cave shrimp known only from one Florida sinkhole.Palaemon macrodactylusA broadly invasive shrimp native to East Asia.Palaemon paludosusA keystone freshwater shrimp from the southeastern United States.Palaemon serenusA transparent Australian shrimp with red-banded claws.Palaemon serratusLargest native prawn around the British Isles.PericlimenesA genus of symbiotic, translucent shrimp found worldwide in tropical reefs.Periclimenes dardanicolaA white shrimp associated with sea anemones on hermit crab shells.Periclimenes pholeterA cave-dwelling shrimp known only from Ras Muhammad Crack.Periclimenes yucatanicusA Caribbean cleaner shrimp that lives among sea anemone tentacles.Urocaridella antonbruuniiA cleaner shrimp with transparent body and red-white markings.YongjiacarisExtinct freshwater shrimp from the Early Cretaceous of China.Zenopontonia rexA commensal shrimp that varies color with its host.Zenopontonia sororA colour-changing shrimp that lives on starfish.StenopodideaBoxer shrimps are a distinct decapod group, not true shrimp or prawns.JuxtastenopusA monotypic shrimp genus with enlarged third pereiopods.MacromaxillocarididaeFirst troglobitic stenopodidean shrimp, with an enlarged third maxilliped.MacromaxillocarisTroglobitic shrimp with an enlarged third maxilliped, sole member of its family.Stenopus hispidusA pan-tropical cleaner shrimp with banded red-and-white coloration.Stenopus pyrsonotusA cryptic Indo-West Pacific shrimp with a red dorsal stripe.Stenopus scutellatusA shy cleaner shrimp with spiny yellow body and red-and-white claws.Alpheus armatusA snapping shrimp that lives with a sea anemone.Alpheus heterochaelisLargest snapping shrimp in its range, uses cavitation bubble snap.Alpheus macrochelesA snapping shrimp with asymmetrical claws and bright orange coloration.Ancylomenes pedersoniA small cleaner shrimp found in Caribbean waters, often with sea anemones.Cinetorhynchus rigensA red-and-white shrimp with a foldable rostrum and jerky movements.Crangon allmaniA northeast Atlantic shrimp named after naturalist George J. Allman.Crangon septemspinosaA nocturnal, camouflaged shrimp with a versatile diet.Lysmata grabhamiA cleaner shrimp of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic.Lysmata wurdemanniA peppermint shrimp now recognized as a narrowly distributed western Atlantic species.Spotted cleaner shrimpA Caribbean cleaner shrimp that lives among sea anemone tentacles.Synalpheus microneptunusA eusocial snapping shrimp living exclusively in Barbados sponges.Synalpheus regalisFirst known eusocial marine animal, living in sponge colonies.Thor amboinensisA small shrimp with a curved abdomen and pantropical distribution.Calliasmata pholidotaA color-changing shrimp of anchialine pools.LysmataA genus of caridean shrimp known for cleaning and pest control.Lysmata amboinensisA cleaner shrimp with striking bands and protandric hermaphroditism.Lysmata boggessiThe most reliable natural predator of Aiptasia anemones in aquaria.
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