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Peacock-tail anemone shrimp
Ancylocaris brevicarpalis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 587984, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Peacock-tail anemone shrimp
- Scientific
- Ancylocaris brevicarpalis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Shrimps
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The peacock-tail anemone shrimp is a small, almost transparent shrimp with white spots and blue-and-orange eye-spots on its tail. It lives among the tentacles of large anemones, often in groups.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=3); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=19, 12 observers).
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=587984
- inaturalist.org /taxa/962418
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Periclimenes_brevicarpalis_sur_Cryptodendrum_adhaesivum.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.