Kingdom Animalia Infraorder Caridea Scientific name Periclimenes Phylum Arthropoda Order Decapoda | Subphylum Crustacea Family Palaemonidae Higher classification Pontoniinae Rank Genus | |
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Lower classifications Spotted cleaner shrimp, Ancylomenes magnificus | ||
Periclimenes yucatanicus
The genus Periclimenes contains a large number of species of shrimp that live symbiotically with larger animals, most commonly sea anemones, although some corals, sea stars, sea cucumbers. In the case of the imperial shrimp, P. imperator, the Spanish dancer sea slug, Hexabranchus sanguineus, is often the preferred host.
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The genus contains the following species:
Periclimenes venustus
References
Periclimenes Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA