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  2. Cleaner shrimp - Wikipedia

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    Cleaner shrimp is a common name for a number of swimming decapod crustaceans that clean other organisms of parasites. Most are found in the families Hippolytidae (including the Pacific cleaner shrimp, Lysmata amboinensis) and Palaemonidae (including the spotted Periclimenes magnificus), though the families Alpheidae, Pandalidae, and ...

  3. Lysmata amboinensis - Wikipedia

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    Lysmata amboinensis is an omnivorous shrimp species known by several common names including the Pacific cleaner shrimp. It is considered a cleaner shrimp as eating parasites and dead tissue from fish makes up a large part of its diet. [2][3] The species is a natural part of the coral reef ecosystem and is widespread across the tropics typically ...

  4. Stenopus hispidus - Wikipedia

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    Stenopus hispidus lives below the intertidal zone, at depth of up to 210 metres (690 ft), [2] on coral reefs. [5] It is a cleaner shrimp, and advertises to passing fish by slowly waving its long, white antennae.

  5. Periclimenes - Wikipedia

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    Periclimenes, commonly known as glass shrimp or cleaner shrimp, is a commensal and often symbiotic genus of semi-transparent shrimp within the family Palaemonidae. Species of this large genus feature a wide variety of coloration and patterns, widespread distribution throughout much of the world's tropical oceans, and are often sought out for aquarium trade.

  6. Ancylomenes pedersoni - Wikipedia

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    Ancylomenes pedersoni. Ancylomenes pedersoni, sometimes known as Pederson's shrimp and Pederson's cleaner shrimp, is a species of cleaner shrimp. [2][3] It is part of the genus Ancylomenes and was described in 1958 by Fenner A. Chace Jr. as Periclimenes pedersoni. [1][4] Ancylomenes pedersoni is found in the Caribbean Sea, often associated with ...

  7. Hippolytidae - Wikipedia

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    Caridea. Superfamily: Alpheoidea. Family: Hippolytidae. Spence Bate, 1888. Hippolytidae is a family of cleaner shrimp, also known as broken-back shrimp or anemone shrimp. The term "broken-back shrimp" also applies to the genus Hippolyte in particular and "cleaner shrimp" is sometimes applied exclusively to Lysmata amboinensis.

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