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Spotted cleaner shrimp

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Spotted cleaner shrimp

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacea
Class:Malacostraca
Order:Decapoda
Suborder:Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family:Palaemonidae
Subfamily:Pontoniinae
Genus:Periclimenes
Species:P. yucatanicus
Binomial name
Periclimenes yucatanicus
(Ives, 1891)

The spotted cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus), lives in sea anemone. They are cleaner shrimp who sway their body and wave their antennae to attract other fish from which they eat dead tissue, algae and parasites.

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