Periclimenes brevicarpalis

Periclimenes brevicarpalis
Periclimenes brevicarpalis in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Caridea
Family:	Palaemonidae
Genus:	Periclimenes
Species:	P. brevicarpalis
Binomial name
Periclimenes brevicarpalis (Schenkel, 1902)
Synonyms
Ancylocaris brevicarpalis Schenkel, 1902 Ancylocaris hermitensis (Rathbun) Harpilius latirostris Lenz, 1905 Palaemonella aberrans Nobili, 1904 Palaemonella amboinensis Zehntner, 1894 Periclimenes hermitensis Rathbun, 1914 Periclimenes potina Nobili, 1905a

Periclimenes brevicarpalis, the glass anemone shrimp or peacock-tail anemone shrimp, is a species of shrimp belonging to the family Palaemonidae.

Description

Periclimenes brevicarpalis can reach a length of 0.5 to 1.0 inch. The body is almost transparent, with some white spots over carapace and tail and orange spots outlined in black over the caudal fin. Females are larger than males and have more white spots. This species lives symbiotically with sea anemones, corals and jellyfish. Males attain similar average body sizes than females suggesting that the species is gonochoric and monogamous due to the fact that pairs of shrimp inhabit the same host individual in the field. ^[1]

Distribution

This species can be found in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, including Australia.

References

1. Prakash, Sanjeevi; Kumar, Thipramalai T. Ajith; Subramoniam, Thanumalaya; Baeza, J. Antonio (2017). "Sexual system and sexual dimorphism in the shrimp Periclimenes brevicarpalis (Schenkel, 1902) (Caridea: Palaemonidae), symbiotic with the sea anemone Stichodactyla haddoni (Saville-Kent, 1893) in the Gulf of Mannar, India". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37 (3): 332–339. ISSN   0278-0372.

Further reading

• Bruce, A. J. (1 September 1976). "A report on some pontoniinid shrimps collected from the Seychelle Islands by the F.R.V. Manihine, 1972, with a review of the Seychelles pontoniinid shrimp fauna" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 59 (2): 89–153. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1976.tb01012.x. ISSN   0024-4082.

External links

• WoRMS
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Freshmarine