Periclimenes sagittifer (Norman, 1861) is a animal in the Palaemonidae family, order Decapoda, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Periclimenes sagittifer (Norman, 1861)

Periclimenes sagittifer (Norman, 1861)

Periclimenes sagittifer is a small transparent shrimp that lives in symbiosis with sea anemones in the Atlantic and eastern Mediterranean.

Family
Genus
Periclimenes
Order
Decapoda
Class
Malacostraca

About Periclimenes sagittifer (Norman, 1861)

Periclimenes sagittifer (Norman, 1861) has a transparent body, with a characteristic violet arrow-shaped marking on its abdomen, alternating yellow and blue coloring on its legs, and a blue arrow-shaped marking on its tail. Individuals of this species grow up to 25 mm in length. This species lives in symbiosis with sea anemones, including Anemonia sulcata, Aiptasia mutabilis, Cribrinopsis crassa and Condylactis aurantiaca, and feeds on detritus. It is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Malacostraca Decapoda Palaemonidae Periclimenes

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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