Cleaner and marble shrimp
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Indo-Pacific white-banded cleaner shrimp |
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| Hippolytidae | ||||||||||
| Dana , 1852 |
The hippolytidae got their name because some species from this group fish of parasites liberate other species in this group have a marbled Tarnfärbung. Cleaner and marble shrimp live in all tropical , subtropical and temperate oceans , mostly in caves, crevices or under coral overhangs .
The prawns of the genera Thor , Saron and Lysmata are popular with marine aquarists because they look pretty and are easy to keep.
Genera
with selected species
Cardinal cleaner shrimp ( Lysmata debelius )
Tozeuma sp.
- Bythocaris GO Sars, 1870
- Calliasmata Holthuis, 1973
- Caridion Goës, 1863
- Chorism Bate, 1888
- Eualus Thallwitz, 1892
- Exhippolysmata Stebbing, 1915
- Heptacarpus Holmes, 1900
- Hetairus
- Hippolysmata
- Hippolyte Leach, 1814
- Latreutes Stimpson, 1860
- Lebbeus White, 1847
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Lysmata Risso, 1816
- Indo-Pacific white-banded cleaner shrimp ( Lysmata amboinensis )
- Cardinal cleaner shrimp ( Lysmata debelius )
- Wurdemann's cleaner shrimp ( Lysmata wurdemanni )
- Lysmatella
- Merhippolyte Bate, 1888
- Parhippolyte Borradaile, 1899
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Marble shrimp ( Saron ) Thallwitz, 1891
- Common marble shrimp ( Saron marmoratus )
- Spirontocaris Bate, 1888
- Thinora Bruce, 1998
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Thor Kingsley, 1878
- Hollow back shrimp ( Thor amboinensis )
- Thoralus
- Tozeuma Stimpson, 1860
- Trachycaris Calman, 1906
literature
- Hans A. Baensch , Helmut Debelius : Sea water atlas. Volume 1: The joint care of invertebrates and tropical marine fish in the aquarium. 3rd, revised edition, 1st paperback edition. Mergus - Verlag für Natur- und Heimtierkunde Baensch, Melle 1997, ISBN 3-88244-110-0 .
- Helmut Debelius: Cancer Guide. Prawns, crabs, lobsters, lobsters, mantis shrimp, worldwide. Year, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-86132-504-7 .
Web links
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