Spotted cleaner shrimp
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| Periclimenes yucatanicus (Ives, 1891) |
The spotted cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus), is a kind of cleaner shrimp common to the Caribbean Sea.
These shrimp live in sea anemones. They sway their body and wave their antennae in order to attract fish from which they eat dead tissue, algae, and parasites.
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