Saw Blade Shrimp - Tozeuma armatum
Saw Blade Shrimp - Tozeuma armatum got their name from the long snout they have which has ridges like saws.
This Shrimp is slender and long, yellow to translucent colour with purple stripes. They lives among black corals and blend is very well camouflaged among its host.
The saw-blade shrimp is a species of broken back shrimp (Hippolydiae) that occurs throughout the Indo-West Pacific and the Red Sea.
The shrimp is associated with black corals and sea whips. An elongated shrimp, which blends in with the coral not only by its shape, but also by adopting the same colour bands as it's particular coral colony host. It can be white, yellow, orange, red or combination of these. The rarest colour combination is yellow and blue. It's body is transparent with irregular.. more
