Saw-blade shrimp (Tozeuma armatum)

Tozeuma armatum

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 transverse camouflaging bands. It is quite difficult to find, but stays up to a few months on the same coral.

Appearance

Size: Up to 2 in. (5 cm)
Depth: 10-100 ft. (3-30 m)

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Naming

Banded Tozeuma shrimp

Sawblade Shimp (Tozeuma_armatum) Dauin (Oct 3, 2012)
It has a beautiful stripe pattern and lives on whip coral and in black coral bushes. It matches the colour of the host. They are sometimes found alone sometimes in groups of up to 5 or more. Depth is usually 15 meters or deeper.
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Distribution

Indo-West Pacific, Red Sea

References:

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Taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Division	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Hippolytidae
Genus	Tozeuma
Species	Tozeuma armatum

Photographed in
Indonesia
Philippines