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Banded Sawblade Shrimp The Banded Sawblade Shrimp - Tozeuma armatum has elongated body, this one was easily 15-18 cm in length.  Long and slender, it has bands of blue/purple colour with yellow-based body. Banded Sawblade Shrimp,Banded Tozeuma Shrimp,Cebu,Gato Island,Geotagged,Malapascua,Philippines,Saw-blade shrimp,Sawblade Shrimp,Shrimp,Spring,Tozeuma armatum Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Banded Sawblade Shrimp

The Banded Sawblade Shrimp - Tozeuma armatum has elongated body, this one was easily 15-18 cm in length. Long and slender, it has bands of blue/purple colour with yellow-based body.

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  1. Fantastic creature! Posted 8 years ago
    1. Thanks, Ferdy :) Posted 8 years ago

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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

Similar species: Decapods
Species identified by Albert Kang
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By Albert Kang

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Uploaded May 21, 2017. Captured Apr 28, 2017 10:31 in Philippines.
  • TG-4
  • f/6.3
  • 1/200s
  • ISO500
  • 18mm