Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1989) is a animal in the Palaemonidae family, order Decapoda, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1989)

Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1989)

Ancylomenes venustus, the graceful anemone shrimp, is a cleaner Indo-Pacific shrimp that associates with corals and sea anemones.

Family
Genus
Ancylomenes
Order
Decapoda
Class
Malacostraca

About Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1989)

Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1989), commonly called the graceful anemone shrimp, is a species of shrimp in the family Palaemonidae. It inhabits tropical waters in the central part of the Indo-Pacific biogeographical region. This species lives in association with scleractinians and actiniarians (sea anemones), and it is a cleaner shrimp.

Photo: (c) Shigeru Harazaki, all rights reserved, uploaded by Shigeru Harazaki

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Malacostraca Decapoda Palaemonidae Ancylomenes

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