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[echeng]

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.

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[MortenHansen]

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!

[Leslie]

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.

[echeng]

Thank you, as always, Leslie. It was tiny tiny tiny, and there was some current. They were hard shots to get.

OK, the books say "inshore hairy shrimp" matches that scientific name.

[Alex_Mustard]

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

[Leslie]

:-D I didn't even notice the copepod!