Periclimenes brevicarpalis (original) (raw)
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Species of crustacean
| Periclimenes brevicarpalis | |
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| Periclimenes brevicarpalis in Bunaken, Indonesia | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Periclimenes |
| Species: | P. brevicarpalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Periclimenes brevicarpalis(Schenkel, 1902) | |
| Synonyms | |
| Ancylocaris brevicarpalis Schenkel, 1902 Ancylocaris hermitensis (Rathbun) Harpilius latirostris Lenz, 1905 Palaemonella aberrans Nobili, 1904 Palaemonella amboinensis Zehntner, 1894 Periclimenes hermitensis Rathbun, 1914 Periclimenes potina Nobili, 1905a |
Periclimenes brevicarpalis, the glass anemone shrimp or peacock-tail anemone shrimp, is a species of shrimp belonging to the family Palaemonidae.
Periclimenes brevicarpalis can reach a length of 0.5 to 1.0 inch. The body is almost transparent, with some white spots over carapace and tail and orange spots outlined in black over the caudal fin. Females are larger than males and have more white spots. This species lives symbiotically with sea anemones, corals and jelly fish.
This species can be found in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, including Australia.
- Bruce, A.J., 1976e. A report on some pontoniid shrimps collected from the Seychelles Islands by the F.R.V. Manihine, 1972, with a review of the Seychelles pontoniid shrimp fauna.— Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 59: 89-153.
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