🦋 Family

Palaemonidae

30 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Palaemonidae

Manipontonia psamathe, the translucent Gorgonian shrimp, is a 1902-described saltwater shrimp found in the Indo-Pacific.

Ancylomenes holthuisi is a widespread Indo-West Pacific tropical cleaner shrimp that associates with cnidarians.

Ancylomenes magnificus is a small mutualistic cleaner shrimp that forms symbiotic relationships with sea anemones and corals.

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

Ancylomenes pedersoni, or Pederson's shrimp, is a small cleaner shrimp that lives associated with sea anemones.

Zenopontonia soror is a small Indo-Pacific shrimp that always lives in association with host starfish.

Related Families

Ocypodidae 39 species Diogenidae 32 species Cambaridae 24 species Portunidae 24 species Varunidae 18 species Palinuridae 17 species Paguridae 15 species Coenobitidae 13 species

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