Yellow-beaked Cleaner Shrimp (species: Urocaridella sp. 3) in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Urocaridella sp. 3
Yellow-beaked Cleaner Shrimp


©Anne Hoggett: Urocaridella sp. 3 in a shallow cavern on the reef slope between Bird and South Islands, Lizard Island Group.

©Anne Hoggett: Urocaridella sp. 3 in a shallow cavern on the reef slope between Bird and South Islands, Lizard Island Group.

©Marianne Dwyer: Urocaridella sp. 3 in the gills of fish Diagramma labiosum at Cobia Hole, Lizard Island.

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Palaemonidae
Genus Urocaridella
Species Urocaridella sp. 3

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Colours

              

Distinguishing features

Transparent body with numerous red and white spots. Rostrum yellow, slender, exremely long and curved upwards. A yellow line running most of the length of the body ventrally, splitting at the tail and outlining the uropods.

Recorded as Urocaridella sp. C by Debelius (1999) and (from Lizard Island) by Becker and Grutter (2005) and as Urocaridella sp. 3 by Humann and Deloach (2010).

Size

  • Up to 2.5 cm (body length)

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Distribution

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References

References that assist with identification

  • Debelius, H. (1999). Crustacea guide of the world. 321 pp. Ikan-Unterwasserarchiv, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Humann, P. and N. Deloach (2010). Reef Creature Identification: Tropical Pacific New World Publications Inc., Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

Other references

  • Becker, J.H.A. and A.S. Grutter (2005). Client fish ectoparasite loads and cleaner shrimp Urocaridella sp. C hunger levels affect cleaning behaviour, Animal Behaviour, 70: 991-996. LIRS catalog number 1084.