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spotted cleaner shrimp

This is a spotted cleaner shrimp "Periclimenes yucatanicus" in an anemone "heteractis magnifica". The size of such a shrimp is less than 2 centimeters (0.8 inch). A macro lens and some patience are thus needed to take a picture of that shrimp... The shrimp protects itself from the irritant cells of the anemone by overlapping with the mucus secreted by the anemone. At the time of moult, the shrimp cannot approach the anemone anymore but gradually in order to again overlap itself with mucus.

ISO 200, 100mm, f-16, 1/125 s.

image reference
20050407-022
location
Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
date
07/04/2005
spotted cleaner shrimp