Can you find the Shrimp?
This Starfish Shrimp - Periclimenes soror has its common name from the fact that they are mostly found living on Starfish including Crown of Thorn as in this picture. They are small in size, usually around 1 cm, slender and with white band running head to the tail, or could be just plain single colour. Their colour varies depending on the host Starfish, ranging from White, Brown, Orange, Red, Black, Grey and shades in between.
''Periclimenes soror'', also called the starfish shrimp is a species of shrimp that lives as a symbiont with starfishes.''Periclimenes soror'' is a species of little shrimp with a truncated rostris, and showing a wide variety of coats, but often with a distinctive white stripe or white dots pattern on the back. The rest of the body varies with the host starfish: it is often "a deep purple red" when living on ''Culcita'', ''Protoreaster'' or ''Pentaceraster'', but red with a white dorsal stripe when.. more
