Florent's Guide To The

Tropical Reefs

White-Banded Cleaner Shrimp
Lysmata amboinensis
White-Banded Cleaner Shrimp
Also known as: White-Striped Cleaner Shrimp, Pacific Cleaner Shrimp, Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp
Category: Broken-back Shrimps
Scientific Name: Lysmata amboinensis
Size: Up to 2.25 in. (6 cm)  
Depth: 6-50 ft. (2-15 m)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific, Hawaii
Arthropoda (Phylum)
└Crustacea (Subphylum)
 └Malacostraca (Class)
  └Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
   └Decapoda (Order)
    └Pleocyemata (Suborder)
     └Caridea (Infraorder)
      └Alpheoidea (Superfamily)
       └Lysmatidae (Family)
        └Lysmata (Genus)

Crustaceans
Broken-back Shrimps

White-Banded Cleaner Shrimp

Scarlet-Striped Cleaning Shrimp

Sponge Peppermint Shrimp

Squat Anemone Shrimp

Caribbean Squat Anemone Shrimp

Cryptic Sponge Shrimp

Hairy Shrimp

Marbled Shrimp

Saw-Blade Shrimp

Ocellated Tozeuma Shrimp

Roughback Shrimp



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