Beautiful Cleaner Shrimp

Ancylomenes venustus

• Group: Shrimp
• Typical depth: 8–15 m

A delicate cleaner shrimp of coral reefs, it lives among hard corals and anemones in shallow water down to about 15 metres. Cleaner shrimps like this pick parasites and dead skin from passing fish, setting up stations where larger animals queue for a grooming.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Palaemonidae › Ancylomenes

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 514498.