No photo available
Glass shrimp
Cuapetes tenuipes
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 514529, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Glass shrimp
- Scientific
- Cuapetes tenuipes
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Shrimps
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 1 to 160 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A small, transparent shrimp with fine lines and coloured spots, which lives among corals and in crevices on reefs.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=14, 6 observers); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Cuapetes-tenuipes.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=514529
- inaturalist.org /taxa/319771
- inaturalist.org /observations/394243754
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.