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Pistol Shrimp,
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Shrimp Gobies,
Freshwater Shrimps,
/A Diversity of Aquatic Life
Commensal, Anemone Shrimp, Family Palaemonidae, Part
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Periclimenes soror |
| Periclimenes cf. imperator.
Indo-West and Central Pacific. To 2 cm. Found on large seastars, nudibranchs
and sea cucumbers. N. Sulawesi images. |
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| Periclimenes inornatus Kemp 1922. Transparent
body with a light copper stripe down the middle. Small antennal scale.
7-8 spines on rostrum. Indo-West Pacific. East Africa to Indo., to
Micronesia. Usually found on giant anemones (Stichodactyla,
Heteractis). N. Sulawesi image on Plerogyra. |
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| Periclimenes koroensis Bruce 1977. Small, but
with a conspicuous white head, long chelipeds... antennae, abdomen often
hidden in hosts tentacles (mushrooms, anemones). Western Pacific;
Philippines, Australia, Marshall Islands. To 4 cm. N. Sulawesi pix in a
Euphylliid. |
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| Periclimenes longicarpus Red Sea, Arabian Sea
endemic. Usually associated with the Bubble Tip Anemone, Entacmaea
quadricolor, here on a Bubble Coral, Plerogyra sinuosa
and another just off of its anemone (Gyrostoma helianthus) host,
resting on an adjacent Xeniid. There are at least 45 species of
commensal shrimps of the subfamily Pontiinae in the Red Sea. |
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| Periclimenes magnificus Bruce 1979. Transparent
bodies with four white bands that are made up of white and red dots.
Chelipeds, antennae white, legs reddish. Reportedly found on Elegance Coral/Catalaphyllia
and the anemone Dolfleina armata. In N. Sulawesi, found on mud
bottoms, in association with Snake Eel species... shown. |
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| Periclimenes pedersoni Chace 1958, the Caribbean
Anemone Shrimp, Pederson's Shrimp. Should always be kept with Anemone hosts.
A great cleaner of fishes, but ships poorly. Here in a
Bartholomea
anemone and on a sponge in the Bahamas |
 
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| Here cleaning the trusting mouth of a Graysby in Grand Turks |
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| Periclimenes psamathe. Tropical Indo-Pacific on black
corals, gorgonians, hydroids, anemones and corallimorphs. To two cm. N.
Sulawesi (Lembeh Strait) image. Clear bodied with red lines on abdomen. |
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| Periclimenes soror Nobili 1904. Similar, but
thinner than P. imperator. Color, markings matching host... Blue
on Linckia stars... Found on other stars: Culcita,
Acanthaster, Choriaster. Indo-trans-Pacific; Red Sea, East Africa to
Hawai'i, Sea of Cortez. Fiji, N. Sulawesi pix... on Culcita and
Choriaster. |
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