Graceful Anemone Shrimp (species: Ancylomenes venustus) in Upolu Reef (Gaia Guide)
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Ancylomenes venustus
Graceful Anemone Shrimp


©David Witherall and Paul Myers: Graceful Anemone Shrimp, Ancylomenes venustus, Upolu Reef

©David Witherall and Paul Myers: Tail of Graceful Anemone Shrimp, Ancylomenes venustus, Upolu Reef

©Anne: Ancylomenes venustus with coral Heliofungia actiniformis at Cobia Hole, Lizard Island.

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Palaemonidae
Genus Ancylomenes
Species Ancylomenes venustus

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Colours

              

Distinguishing features

A small, transparent shrimp with distinctive colour pattern: a large white oval patch on the "hump" (third abdominal segment) with two broad, pale pink bands inset at front and back edge; small blue and white markings on lower body and appendages.

Size

  • Size data has not been obtained.

Synonyms

Similar taxa

  • Animalia: species: Ancylomenes holthuisi
    has a less noticeable white patch on the "hump" and it has a red anterior margin (rather than two pale pink banks) and red spots elsewhere on body (rather than blue and white)(Bruce, 1989).

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References

  • Bruce, A.J. (1989). A report on some coral reef shrimps from the Philippine Islands. Asian Marine Biology, 6: 173-192. LIRS catalog number 90293.
  • Bruce, A.J. (1989). A new cnidarian-associated palaemonid shrimp from Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, Australia. Indo-Malayan Zoology, 6: 229-243. LIRS catalog number 90294.