My dive guide showed me these shrimps at Nudi Retreat. I am sure others have photographed them too. But I am struggling to ID them. Any help appreciated. They were pretty small.
Alex
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Lembeh Shrimps
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Seen them before several times on different media!
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Hopefully they are common enough that someone knows what they are.
Alex
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They are white striped coral shrimp
yes, i work as a diver... how can you tell?
hahaha
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Thank you, Mike.
I should have specified I was after the latin name.
Alex
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Alex, Mike was just being modest. They named that shrimp after him... sangatusberlulu botakepalas.
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Haha, I know, I was just being a dive guide, making up a name on the spot, we are good like that. Sorry, can't help.
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Nobody seems able to. I tried it on Facebook today too. Alex
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I thought I'd give this another bump. Nobody know what these are?
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Going to keep bumping this one up - as I know people are away.
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nice shot!
you can try these:
http://www.reeflex.net/kategorie/55.html
http://www.starfish.ch/c-invertebrates/commensal-shrimps.html#octocorals
lebbeus family looks similar: http://www.starfish.ch/Fotos/crustaceans-Gliederfuesser/shrimps-Garnelen/Lebbeus-sp1-1.jpg
identifying the coral first can also be the first step to the latin name as some are limited to certain coral species.
greetings martin
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Here's mine from Romblon, it's color true so stripes is a bit more yellow/greenish than Alex's. On the same (perhaps) Tubastrea Coral too so probably the same species.
