Ambon Cleaner Shrimp

Lysmata amboinensis

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Description

  Lysmata amboinensis, the northern cleaner shrimp, scarlet cleaner shrimp, skunk cleaner shrimp or Pacific cleaner shrimp, is an omnivorous shrimp species, which will generally scavenge and eat parasites and dead tissue. L. amboinensis is naturally part of the reef ecosystem, and is widespread in the Red Sea and tropi... Read more in Seabook

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Sri Lanka Maldives Vietnam Seychelles Cambodia +61 more in Seabook

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Conservation status

(NE) Not evaluated