How big does the Hingebeak Shrimp get?

The Hingebeak Shrimp grows to about 4 cm.

Hingebeak Shrimp

Rhynchocinetes durbanensis

Group: Shrimp
Max size: 4 cm

The hingebeak shrimp gathers in dense, milling groups right at the mouths of moray eel holes, apparently cleaning up the scraps the eels leave behind. Barely four centimetres long and banded in red and white, it shelters in the same crevices its hosts call home.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Rhynchocinetidae › Rhynchocinetes

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 212926.

FAQ

How big does the Hingebeak Shrimp get?: The Hingebeak Shrimp grows to about 4 cm.