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Ambon cleaner shrimp
Lysmata amboinensis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 241289, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Ambon cleaner shrimp
- Scientific
- Lysmata amboinensis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Shrimps
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 1 to 120 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The Pacific cleaner shrimp has a red back divided by a white central stripe and long white antennae. It runs cleaning stations, often in groups, and picks parasites and dead skin from fish, even entering the mouths of moray eels and groupers.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=11, 8 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Lysmata-amboinensis.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=241289
- inaturalist.org /taxa/121385
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Lysmata_amboinensis_in_Tropicarium-Oceanarium_Budapest.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.