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Cribrinopsis crassa

(Andrès, 1881)


Jose Maria Abad Ortega Periclimenes La Herradura Granada Spain. Nikon D200 in Sea Sea Inon Z240 Sigma 105 macro + Inon lens X2 f32 1/125

Fabio Russo is it made by night?

Jose Maria Abad Ortega This done by day. This shrimp (Periclimenes sagittifer) is on a common anemone on the surface of the sand, with a few short tentacles and in her it is easy to see the shrimp.

Fabio Russo I know it is a P sagittifer on a Cribrinopsis crassa, in nigth this shrimps had jujst less color in night: Normal color form: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=298193663589428&set=a.297628606979267.70181.100001963915296&type=3

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Taxonomy
Animalia (Kingdom)
  Cnidaria (Phylum)
    Anthozoa (Class)
      Hexacorallia (Subclass)
        Actiniaria (Order)
          Nyantheae (Suborder)
            Thenaria (Infraorder)
              Endomyaria (Superfamily)
                Actiniidae (Family)
                  Cribrinopsis (Genus)
                    Cribrinopsis crassa (Species)
Associated Species
Periclimenes sagittifer (1)