Common Name: "Amboin Cleaner Shrimp"
Scientific Name: Lysmata amboinensis
Hierarchy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order:Decapoda
Family: Hippolytidae
Genus: Lysmata
Species: amboinensis
Facts:
- They eat parasites and dead tissue off of fish.
- Many fish species will even allow these shrimp to enter there mouth to eat parasites without the fish ever eating the shrimp.
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