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Ambon Cleaner Shrimp
Lysmata amboinensis
Seastar Shrimp
Zenopontonia soror
- Max size
- View in app
- Max depth
- 25 m
- Found in
- 82 regions
How to recognise it
- Colours
- transparentwhitebrownorangepurplered
- Pattern
- Horizontal markings
Periclimenes soror, also called the starfish shrimp, is a species of shrimp that lives as a symbiont with sea stars.
Description
Periclimenes soror is a species of little shrimp with a truncated rostris, and showing a wide variety of coats, but often with a distinctive white stripe or white dots pattern on the back. The rest of the body varies with the host starfish: it is often "a deep purple red" when living on Culcita, Protoreaster or Pentaceraster, but red with a white dorsal stripe when living on Acanthaster, and can also be transparent. Adults reach up to 15 millimetres (0.6 in) long.
Distribution
This species has a wide distribution across the Indo-Pacific from Tanzania to Japan, also Australia, and in the Gulf of Panama.
Habitat
It lives commensally on starfishes, including the "crown-of-thorns" starfish, Acanthaster planci. Depth range 1 - 25 m.
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Questions
Is Seastar Shrimp dangerous?
Seastar Shrimp has no known danger to humans. However, always observe marine life responsibly.
Where can you find Seastar Shrimp?
How deep does Seastar Shrimp live?
Seastar Shrimp can be found at depths of up to 25 meters.
