Invertebrates
Stenopus hispidus
Banded coral shrimp
Family Stenopodidae. It is a beautiful shrimp with red and white banding
pattern and long white antennae. Length to 6cm. Its body is covered with
many short spines. It lives in the warm sea, and is found in the crevice
and the cave. It sometimes eats the parasites living on fish, and is known
well as a cleaner shrimp. |
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