Spotted cleaner shrimp

Spotted cleaner shrimp

Taxobox
name = Spotted cleaner shrimp



image_width = 256px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Caridea
familia = Palaemonidae
subfamilia = Pontoniinae
genus = "Periclimenes"
species = "P. yucatanicus"
binomial = "Periclimenes yucatanicus"
binomial_authority = (Ives, 1891)

The spotted cleaner shrimp ("Periclimenes yucatanicus"), is a kind of cleaner shrimp common to the Caribbean Sea.

These shrimp live in sea anemones. They sway their body and wave their antennae in order to attract fish from which they eat dead tissue, algae, and parasites.


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