Shrimps

90 species

Shrimps are a fascinating and diverse group of invertebrates that make excellent additions to a saltwater aquarium. Known for their vibrant colors, intricate patterns, and interesting behaviors, shrimps not only add aesthetic value to your tank but also contribute to its overall health by performing essential cleaning tasks.

One of the most popular types of shrimp in the reefkeeping hobby is the Lysmata amboinensis, which is renowned for its symbiotic relationship with fish, cleaning them of parasites and dead tissue. Another favorite is the Lysmata wurdemanni, often used for its ability to control pest anemones like Aiptasia. Additionally, the Hymenocera picta is admired for its striking appearance, although it has specialized feeding requirements, primarily preying on starfish.

Shrimps are generally hardy and can adapt to a range of water conditions, but they do require stable parameters and a well-established tank to thrive. They are also sensitive to copper-based medications, so it's crucial to avoid using such treatments in a tank housing shrimps. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced aquarist, shrimps offer both beauty and functionality, making them a valuable addition to any marine aquarium.

  1. Red snapping shrimp (Alpheus armatus) hiding in a corkscrew anemone in the Caribbean, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras
    Common name: brown snapping shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus armatus
  2. Common name: Beautiful goby shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus bellulus
  3. Red snapping shrimp (Alpheus armatus) hiding in a corkscrew anemone in the Caribbean, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras
    Common name: red snapping shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus bisincisus
  4. Gold-streaked prawn-goby and  Djeddah snapping shrimp
    Common name: Djeddah snapping shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus djeddensis
  5. Common name: Immaculate Pistol Shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus immaculatus
  6. Common name: fine-striped snapping shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus ochrostriatus
  7. Common name: Pacific Pistol Shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus pacificus
  8. Flagtail Shrimpgoby (Amblyeleotris yanoi) live together with Randall's Pistol Shrimp (Alpheus randalli), Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
    Common name: Randall's Pistol Shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus randalli
  9. Common name: Red-spotted Pistol Shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus rubromaculatus
  10. Common name: Twin Snapping Shrimp
    Scientific name: Alpheus soror
  11. Holthuis Cleaner Shrimp, Ancylomenes holthuisi at a Puerto Galera tropical coral reef in the Philippines. This transparent shrimp is hiding among the tentacles of a beautiful sea anemone
    Common name: Holthuis' Shrimp
    Scientific name: Ancylomenes holthuisi
  12. Sarasvati Anemone Shrimp Ancylomenes sarasvati
    Common name: Sarasvati Anemone Shrimp
    Scientific name: Ancylomenes sarasvati
  13. Common name: Henderson's hinge-beak shrimp
    Scientific name: Cinetorhynchus hendersoni
  14. red night shrimp
    Common name: Manning hingebeak
    Scientific name: Cinetorhynchus manningi
  15. Green-eye Dancing Shrimp (Cinetorhynchus reticulatus) close up of the orange/ red colored shrimp sitting on the reef.
    Common name: reticulated hingebeak
    Scientific name: Cinetorhynchus reticulatus
  16. Soft coral partner shrimp (Dasycaris ceratops) hide in their habitat, Tulumben, Bali, Indonesia
    Common name: Horned Sea Pen Shrimp
    Scientific name: Dasycaris ceratops
  17. Zanzibar whip coral shrimp, Dasycaris zanzibarica
    Common name: Zanzibar Whip Coral Shrimp
    Scientific name: Dasycaris zanzibarica
  18. Common name: St. Joseph's Cardinalfish
    Scientific name: Eurato sanctijosephi
  19. Bumble bee shrimp
    Common name: Striped Bumblebee Shrimp
    Scientific name: Gnathophyllum americanum
  20. Gonodactylus chiragra in Kuroshima Island, Okinawa Prefecture
    Common name: Peacock Mantis Shrimp
    Scientific name: Gonodactylus chiragra
  21. Camarón escondido en el arrecife
    Common name: Peacock Mantis Shrimp
    Scientific name: Gonodactylus smithii
  22. Boschma`s Gorgonian Shrimp (Hamodactylus boschmai
    Common name: coral shrimp
    Scientific name: Hamodactylus boschmai
  23. Sexy Shrimp on Soft Coral
    Common name: Sexy Shrimp
    Scientific name: Hamodactylus noumeae
  24. Egg Shell Shrimp - Hamopontonia corallicola
    Common name: Mushroom coral shrimp
    Scientific name: Hamopontonia corallicola
  25. Peacock Mantis Shrimp
    Common name: Peacock Mantis Shrimp
    Scientific name: Haptosquilla pulchella
  26. Mantis Shrimp, Peacock Mantis, Odomodactylus scylla, Coral Reef, Lembeh, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Asia
    Common name: Mantis Shrimp
    Scientific name: Hemisquilla ensigera
  27. Incredible underwater world - Hymenocera picta - Harlequin shrimp. Eating/feeding starfish. Underwater macro photography. Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia.
    Common name: harlequin shrimp
    Scientific name: Hymenocera picta
  28. Common name: Variable crinoid shrimp
    Scientific name: Laomenes ceratophthalmus
  29. ラオメネス・コルヌトゥス
    Common name: Harlequin Shrimp
    Scientific name: Laomenes cornutus
  30. Donald Duck shrimp
    Common name: Plume shrimp
    Scientific name: Leander plumosus
  31. Lagoon Mantis Shrimp, Lysiosquilla tredecimdentata
    Common name: golden mantis shrimp
    Scientific name: Lysiosquilla tredecimdentata
  32. Tomato grouper (Cephalopholis sonnerati) being cleaned by a cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis) in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
    Common name: Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
    Scientific name: Lysmata amboinensis
  33. Common name: Anker's Pistol Shrimp
    Scientific name: Lysmata ankeri
  34. Common name: Peppermint Shrimp
    Scientific name: Lysmata bahia
  35. Close-up of live Peppermint Shrimp under water
    Common name: Peppermint Shrimp
    Scientific name: Lysmata boggessi
  36. Red Striped Shrimp
    Common name: lined shrimp
    Scientific name: Lysmata californica
  37. Fire Shrimp - Lysmata debelius
    Common name: scarlet cleaner shrimp
    Scientific name: Lysmata debelius
  38. CLEANER SHRIMP lysmata grabhami ON SEA ANEMON
    Common name: cleaner shrimp
    Scientific name: Lysmata grabhami
  39. Camarão Bailarino (lysmata wurdemanni)
    Common name: peppermint shrimp
    Scientific name: Lysmata wurdemanni
  40. Dragon shrimp, Gorgonian Horned Shrimp, miropandalus hardingi. Romblon, Philippines.
    Common name: Dragon shrimp
    Scientific name: Miropandalus hardingi
  41. Mysis (zooplankton) under the microscope.
    Common name: Mysis Shrimp
    Scientific name: Mysis relicta
  42. Opossum shrimp swimming underwater in the St. Lawrence River in Canada
    Common name: An opossum shrimp
    Scientific name: Neomysis integer
  43. Pink-eared Mantis Shrimp, Odontodactylus latirostris, Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia
    Common name: pink tail mantis shrimp
    Scientific name: Odontodactylus latirostris
  44. Peacock-, harlequin-, painted- or clown mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus scyllarus
    Common name: Peacock Mantis Shrimp
    Scientific name: Odontodactylus scyllarus
  45. Cave shrimp, Parhippolyte uveae, Sulawesi Indoensia.
    Common name: sugarcane shrimp
    Scientific name: Parhippolyte uveae
  46. A Sculptured Slipper Lobster (Parribacus antarcticus) in Cozumel, Mexico
    Common name: sculptured mitten lobster
    Scientific name: Parribacus antarcticus
  47. Amboinensis crinoid shrimp ( Periclimenes amboinensis ) crawls on a feather star crinoid of Bali, Indonesia
    Common name: ambon crinoid shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes amboinensis
  48. Short hand commensal shrimp, Periclimenes brevicarpalis
    Common name: pacific clown anemone shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes brevicarpalis
  49. Common name: Brock's Anemone Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes brockii
  50. Two Coleman Shrimp (Periclimenes colemani)
    Common name: Coleman Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes colemani
  51. A minute skeleton shrimp (Caprella sp) sits on a hydroid on the Coral Reef dive site, Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
    Common name: hydroid shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes galene
  52. purple shrimp bunaken periclimenes holthuisi underwater photo
    Common name: Holthuis' Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes holthuisi
  53. Emperor Shrimp
    Common name: emperor shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes imperator
  54. Mushroom coral shrimp ( Periclimenes kororensis ) resting in sea anemone tentacle of Bali, Indonesia
    Common name: Koror Anemone Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes kororensis
  55. Commensal shrimp,  Periclimenes lanipes, living in a basket starfish, Raja Ampat Indonesia.
    Common name: Harlequin Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes lanipes
  56. Partnergarnele
    Common name: Long-arm Cleaner Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes longicarpus
  57. オドリカクレエビ (periclimenes magnificus) 、英語名のアネモネシュリンプと呼ばれることも。三重県尾鷲市
    Common name: Magnificent Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes magnificus
  58. Pederson Cleaner Shrimp (Periclimenes pedersoni) in Corkscrew Anomones (Bartholomea annulata)
    Common name: Pederson cleaner shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes pedersoni
  59. Periclimenes psamathe, Hydroid Shrimp on the Small Lalaguna dive site, Puerto Galera,, Philippines
    Common name: translucent gorgonian shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes psamathe
  60. Emperor shrimp / Zenopontonia rex (Periclimenes imperator).  Picture was taken near Island Bangka in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
    Common name: Emperor Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes rex
  61. Sea Star Shrimp (Periclimenes soror) on blue sea star
    Common name: Sea Star Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes soror
  62. Commensal shrimps, Periclimenes tenuipes, Bali Indonesia.
    Common name: Glass shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes tenuipes
  63. Close-up of a glass anemone shrimp (Periclimenes brevicarpalis) in the deep blue ocean
    Common name: Glass Anemone Shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes tenuis
  64. Tosa Commensal Shrimp (Periclimenes tosaensis) in a Coral. Triton Bay, West Papua, Indonesia
    Common name: Periclimenes sarasvati
    Scientific name: Periclimenes tosaensis
  65. Commensal shrimp (Periclimenes venustus), Sulawesi, Indonesia
    Common name: graceful anemone shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes venustus
  66. A spotted cleaner shrimp Periclimenes yucatanicus
    Common name: spotted cleaner shrimp
    Scientific name: Periclimenes yucatanicus
  67. Common name: Gulf flashlightfish
    Scientific name: Phthanophaneron harveyi
  68. Phyllognathia ceratophthalma, Tiger shrimp
    Common name: bongo shrimp
    Scientific name: Phyllognathia ceratophthalma
  69. Disk Anemone Shrimp - Pliopontonia furtiva
    Common name: Pliopontonia furtiva
    Scientific name: Pliopontonia furtiva
  70. Whip coral Shrimp, Pontonides unciger (Pontonides ankeri) Raja Ampat Indonesia.
    Common name: wire coral shrimp
    Scientific name: Pontonides unciger
  71. Common name: common mantis shrimp
    Scientific name: Pseudosquilla ciliata
  72. Hingebeak shrimp (Rhynchocinetes durbanensis) near Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
    Common name: Durban Hinge-Beak Shrimp
    Scientific name: Rhynchocinetes durbanensis
  73. Camel shrimp
    Common name: Red Camel Shrimp
    Scientific name: Rhynchocinetes uritai
  74. Common name: Hairy Urchin Shrimp
    Scientific name: Sandimenes hirsutus
  75. Common name: Shorttailed snake moray
    Scientific name: Scuticaria okinawae
  76. Faxon's shrimp (Solenocera faxoni), Sulawesi, Indonesia
    Common name: Faxonia Shrimp
    Scientific name: Solenocera faxoni
  77. Common name: Sea Grasshopper
    Scientific name: Squilla mantis
  78. Marine life, Liuqiu island, Taiwan
    Common name: whitestripe urchin shrimp
    Scientific name: Stegopontonia commensalis
  79. Common name: Blue-legged Coral Banded Shrimp
    Scientific name: Stenopus cyanoscelis
  80. Banded coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus) in Japan
    Common name: banded coral shrimp
    Scientific name: Stenopus hispidus
  81. Common name: Flameback Coral Shrimp
    Scientific name: Stenopus pyrsonotus
  82. Common name: Blue Boxing Shrimp
    Scientific name: Stenopus tenuirostris
  83. Zanzibar whip coral shrimp, Dasycaris zanzibarica
    Common name: Zanzibar Whip Coral Shrimp
    Scientific name: Stenopus zanzibaricus
  84. Carinate Snapping Shrimp (Synalpheus carinatus)
    Common name: Carinate Snapping Shrimp
    Scientific name: Synalpheus carinatus
  85. Deman`s snapping shrimp with isopod (Synalpheus demani)
    Common name: Modest Snapping Shrimp
    Scientific name: Synalpheus demani
  86. Stimpson's Snapping Shrimp or crinoid snapping shrimp (synalpheus stimpsoni) near Anilao, Batangas, Philippines.  Underwater photography and travel.
    Common name: Stimpson's Pistol Shrimp
    Scientific name: Synalpheus stimpsonii
  87. Squat shrimp at underwater
    Common name: squat anemone shrimp
    Scientific name: Thor amboinensis
  88. Saw blade shrimp, Tozeuma armatum, on a wire coral, Bali Indonesia.
    Common name: Banded Tozeuma Shrimp
    Scientific name: Tozeuma armatum
  89. ヒリゾ浜の水中洞窟でクリアクリーナーシュリンプ(テッポウエビ科)のクリーニングを受ける美しいトラウツボ(ウツボ科)。

静岡県伊豆半島賀茂郡南伊豆町中木から渡し船で渡るヒリゾ浜にて。
2023年10月9日水中撮影。

A beautiful Dragon Moray being cleaned by a Clear Cleaner Shrimp.

HIRIZO Beach, Nakagi, So
    Common name: clear cleaner shrimp
    Scientific name: Urocaridella antonbrunii
  90. Bubble Coral Shrimp (Vir philippinensis)
    Common name: Bubble Coral Shrimp
    Scientific name: Vir philippinensis