Shrimp in Touch Me Not Sponge

[indigo 0]

Please can anyone help with an ID of this shrimp? Found in Touch Me Not sponges, apparently in symbiotic relationship with the Touch Me Not sponge worms...

 

No ID in the books that I have.

 

Size approx. <1cm, transparent with tiny white 'gloves'.

 

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Thanks!

 

Kay Wilson,

Indigo Dive,

St. Vincent

[Leslie 0]

Hi Kay - You're in luck. thanks to some of our members we have a name for this little guy - Periclimenes harringtoni. You can read all about it http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showt...mp+touch+me+not

Cheers, Leslie

[indigo 0]

Thanks Leslie! Interesting stuff!