Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 6 cm
- 🌊 reef crevices, caves
The banded coral shrimp has red and white bands and long white antennae that it waves to attract fish. It runs « cleaning stations »: fish come to be rid of their parasites. It lives in pairs.
Did you know?
It is known to divers for climbing fearlessly onto an outstretched finger or into a fish's mouth without being eaten.
Source: Dive observations
The Tahitian name of this species is not yet confirmed in our sources.
Tahitian names: sources being verified. French name: Crevette nettoyeuse rayée.
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