| Spotted cleaner shrimp | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Periclimenes |
| Species: | P. yucatanicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Periclimenes yucatanicus (Ives, 1891) |
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The spotted cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus), is a kind of cleaner shrimp common to the Caribbean Sea. These shrimp live in sea anemones, including Bartholomea annulata, Condylactis gigantea, Lebrunia danae and Rhodactis sanctithomae.[1] They sway their body and wave their antennae in order to attract fish from which they eat dead tissue, algae, and parasites.