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Donald duck shrimp
Leander plumosus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 514438, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Donald duck shrimp
- Scientific
- Leander plumosus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Shrimps
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A small, transparent shrimp with a long, flattened, beak-like snout, nicknamed the Donald Duck shrimp. It lives among algae and seagrass.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=7, 4 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Leander-plumosus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=514438
- inaturalist.org /taxa/152995
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Donald_duck_shrimp_(Leander_plumosus)_(14407675571).jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.