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Periclimenes pedersoni
Photo take a t -45 ft in a Caribbean reef.
Usually find in corkscrew anemone but also live in giant anemones and sun anemones. Lives in groups.
Is one of the most active shrimps in the coral reef also know as cleaner shrimp has a symbiotic relation whit the anemone it reside by cleaning it from parasites.This shrimp also has a relation whit different fish specimens by cleaning there mouth and guts from parasites
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Thanks to you Karen.
Thanks Gerardo! have re pasted the link as it wasn't working properly - http://www.ehow.com/video_4412706_peders...
I find a grate info about this shrimphttp://www.ehow.com/video_4412706_pedersen-cleaner-shrimp-identification.html
Yes Karen i will.
Gerardo, please can you provide some more information on this species & consider adding it to the symbiotic relations mission -http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/7987627