Ancylomenes venustus
| Ancylomenes venustus | |
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| Eel Garden, Pulau Mabul, Sabah, MALAYSIA | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Ancylomenes |
| Species: | A. venustus
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| Binomial name | |
| Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1989) [1]
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Ancylomenes venustus, also known as the graceful anemone shrimp, is a species of shrimp which belongs to the family of the Palaemonidae. This species is found in the tropical waters from the centre of the Indo-Pacific biogeographical area. A. venustus lives in association with scleractinians[2] and actiniarians (sea anemones) and is a cleaner shrimp.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Sammy De Grave (2013). "Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1989)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
- ^ Bos, A.R. & B.W. Hoeksema (2015). "Cryptobenthic fishes and co-inhabiting shrimps associated with the mushroom coral Heliofungia actiniformis (Fungiidae) in the Davao Gulf, Philippines". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 98 (6): 1479–1489. doi:10.1007/s10641-014-0374-0. S2CID 14834695.
- ^ J. Okuno & A. J. Bruce (2010). "Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the 'Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2372: 85–105. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11.
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