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Blue-legged boxer shrimp
Stenopus cyanoscelis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 210365, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Blue-legged boxer shrimp
- Scientific
- Stenopus cyanoscelis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Shrimps
- Maximum size
- Up to about 3 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A boxer shrimp with red and white bands and bluish legs. It lives in crevices on reefs and cleans fish.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=6, 3 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Stenopus-cyanoscelis.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210365
- inaturalist.org /taxa/1149272
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.