Hump-back Cleaner Shrimp, Lysmata amboinensis, Selawi Straits, Komodo Island, Komodo National Park, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Asia


At Batu Bolong in the Selawi straits the Hump back cleaner shrimp or Lysmata Ambionensis thrives as a swimming decapod crustacean that cleans other organisms particularly larger fish of parasites. It has a slim shell covered body and long tentacles and a bright red stripe on the upper body.


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Location: Selawi Straits, Komodo Island, Komodo National Park, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Asia
Photo credit: © Colin Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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