Florent's Guide To The

Tropical Pacific Reefs

Graceful Anemone Shrimp
Ancylomenes venustus
Graceful Anemone Shrimp
Category: Commensal Shrimps
Scientific Name: Ancylomenes venustus
Synonyms: Periclimenes venustus
Size: Up to 1 in. (2.5 cm)  
Depth: 10-120 ft. (3-37 m)
Distribution: West Pacific, Indonesia
Arthropoda (Phylum)
└Crustacea (Subphylum)
 └Malacostraca (Class)
  └Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
   └Decapoda (Order)
    └Pleocyemata (Suborder)
     └Caridea (Infraorder)
      └Palaemonoidea (Superfamily)
       └Palaemonidae (Family)
        └Ancylomenes (Genus)

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