🦋 Family

Hippolytidae

5 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Hippolytidae

Saron marmoratus, the hunch-backed marble shrimp, is a popular marine aquarium species with an Indo-Pacific native range.

Hippolyte varians, the chameleon shrimp, is a colour-changing small shrimp found in the eastern Atlantic to 150 m deep.

Tozeuma carolinense is a small cryptic shrimp that camouflages itself in seagrass using its slender body and variable coloration.

Alope spinifrons is a broken-back shrimp species in the family Hippolytidae that is widely distributed in New Zealand.

Alope is a two-species shrimp genus in Hippolytidae, with one widespread Indo-West Pacific species and one New Zealand endemic.

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