Does anyone recognize this shrimp? I have photographed it only once before. It is about the size of an algae shrimp (tiny!), and was in Triton Bay, Indonesia.

tiny shrimp with 6 split fore-claws?
Started by echeng, Dec 10 2012 10:07 PM
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#2
Posted 11 December 2012 - 06:02 AM
No idea what this is, but I know that I never found one, and that its pretty darned awesome with the claws open! Sort of a porcelain crab gone shrimp!
#3
Posted 11 December 2012 - 08:15 AM
Neostylodactylus litoralis. Beautiful shots. The backlighting really shows the structure of the legs. With that amount of spinulation I suspect it's a filter feeder.
#5
Posted 12 December 2012 - 02:07 AM
That's very cool. Definitely looks like it is filter feeding in the first shot.
And the bug floating past is probably a cyclopoid copepod - something like Oithona sp.
Alex
And the bug floating past is probably a cyclopoid copepod - something like Oithona sp.
Alex
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#6
Posted 12 December 2012 - 08:16 AM
:-D I didn't even notice the copepod!