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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