Taxonomy

Animalia

Arthropoda

Malacostraca

Decapoda

P. Palaemonidae

Periclimenes yucatanicus

Spotted Cleaner Shrimp

Yucatan's Around-climenes

The spotted cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus), is a kind of cleaner shrimp common to the Caribbean Sea. These shrimp live among the tentacles of several species of sea anemones. They sway their body and wave their antennae in order to attract fish from which they eat dead tissue, algae and parasites.

Periclimenes yucatanicus. Retrieved November, 05 2021, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_cleaner_shrimp.