Periclimenes yucatanicus
A Caribbean cleaner shrimp that lives among sea anemone tentacles.
Last updated
Jessica Rosenkrantz · via Wikipedia: Spotted cleaner shrimp · CC BY-SA 4.0
This shrimp's body is see-through and decorated with brown and white saddle-like patterns.[1] Bold red, purple, and white stripes adorn its chelae and legs.[1]
Scientific classification
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- CladePancrustacea
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- SuborderPleocyemata
- InfraorderCaridea
- FamilyPalaemonidae
- GenusPericlimenes
- SpeciesPericlimenes yucatanicus
Named by (Ives, 1891)
Close relatives
Other species of Periclimenes with a Codexery entry.
- Periclimenes dardanicola Periclimenes dardanicola
- Periclimenes pholeter Periclimenes pholeter
Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Spotted cleaner shrimp (CC BY-SA 4.0) · order, family and genus agree with WoRMS AphiaID 421713 (CC BY 4.0)
How big is it?
Largest length in the source, 0.03 m, next to a 1.8 m person.
Diagram: drawn by Codexery, schematic shapes to scale (not a likeness). Length: Wikipedia: Spotted cleaner shrimp
Where the periclimenes yucatanicus has been recorded
Each dot is a place where the species has been observed and reported (707 records, half-degree grid) — not a modelled range. 7 inland records left out (institution coordinates).
Map: drawn by Codexery. Data: GBIF occurrence search (records CC0 / CC BY) · Natural Earth basemap (public domain) · place coordinates: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Quick Facts
- Common name
- Spotted cleaner shrimp
- Maximum length
- 2.5 cm (1 in)
- Distribution
- Caribbean Sea, southern Florida, the Bahamas, as far south as Colombia
- Breeding season
- Summer
- Egg brooding months
- July and August
Facts from the source article.
Key facts and history
It lives at depths down to about 24 m.[2] When a fish approaches, the shrimp emerges from the anemone tentacles and removes external parasites.[3] It even enters fish mouths and cleans behind gill covers.[3] This shrimp's range extends from southern Florida and the Bahamas through the Caribbean Sea, reaching as far south as Colombia.[2]
Summer is the breeding season, and during July and August females have been observed carrying eggs beneath their abdomens.[4] Once the eggs hatch, the larvae go through multiple planktonic phases prior to settling on the ocean floor.[4] The shrimp forms a close symbiotic relationship with sea anemones, including Condylactis gigantea and Lebrunia danae.[5] Observations have recorded as many as six individual shrimps living together on a single sea anemone.[5]
To lure nearby reef fish, the shrimp waves its antennae back and forth.[3]
What the cited sources add
The Tropical Reefs guide lists the shrimp's size as 0.75 to 1 inch.[6] That source gives its depth range as 1 to 18 m.[6] The same source records its distribution as the Caribbean, Bahamas, and South Florida.[6]
References
- Wikipedia, "Spotted cleaner shrimp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Spotted cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus)", Interactive Guide to Caribbean Diving; Colin, "Marine Invertebrates and Plants of the Living Reef", T.F.H. Publications, 1978, p. 338 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Spotted cleaner shrimp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Colin, "Marine Invertebrates and Plants of the Living Reef", T.F.H. Publications, 1978, p. 338; Charpin, Florent, "Spotted cleaner shrimp", Tropical Reefs (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Spotted cleaner shrimp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Spotted cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus)", Interactive Guide to Caribbean Diving; Colin, "Marine Invertebrates and Plants of the Living Reef", T.F.H. Publications, 1978, p. 338; "Periclimenes yucatanicus Spotted Cleaner Shrimp"; Ernest H. Williams, Jr. & Lucy B. Williams, "First report of Periclimenes yucatanicus (Ives) (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) in association with a corallimorpharian anemone", Crustaceana, 1982, p. 318–319; Colin, "Marine Invertebrates and Plants of the Living Reef", T.F.H. Publications, 1978, p. 338 (w en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Spotted cleaner shrimp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Colin, "Marine Invertebrates and Plants of the Living Reef", T.F.H. Publications, 1978, p. 338; Dorit, "Zoology", Saunders College Publishing, 1991, p. 734 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Spotted cleaner shrimp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ernest H. Williams, Jr. & Lucy B. Williams, "First report of Periclimenes yucatanicus (Ives) (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) in association with a corallimorpharian anemone", Crustaceana, 1982, p. 318–319 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Charpin, Florent, "Spotted cleaner shrimp", Tropical Reefs. facts only, no text reused. reefguide.org
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Sources
Compiled from Wikipedia and the sources listed below. Text from Wikipedia is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is adapted from it.
- Wikipedia: Spotted cleaner shrimp (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Classification: the source article's taxobox; order, family and genus checked against WoRMS, the World Register of Marine Species (CC BY 4.0).
- Occurrence records: GBIF (CC0 / CC BY). Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain).
- Word definitions: the Codexery glossary, each quoted from its Wikipedia article.
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