Sunday, November 4, 2012

Crustation: Cleaner Shrimp



Common Name: "Amboin Cleaner Shrimp"
Scientific NameLysmata 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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