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Graceful Anemone Shrimp - Ancylomenes venustus  Ancylomenes venustus,Anemone Shrimp,Graceful Anemone Shrimp,Mabul,Malaysia,Sabah,Shrimp Click/tap to enlarge Country intro

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  1. So beautiful! And, a great photo overall! Do you know what the thing in the upper left is (looks like a giraffe)? Or, the fluffy, pale-greenish, arm-like things radiating out from the center of the photo? Just curious. <3 Posted one year ago

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"Ancylomenes venustus" is a species of shrimp which belongs to the family of the Palaemonidae. This species is found in the tropical waters from the centre of the Indo-Pacific biogeographical area. "A. venustus" lives in association with scleractinians and actiniarians and is a cleaner shrimp.

Similar species: Decapods
Species identified by Albert Kang
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Uploaded Nov 10, 2023.