Lysmatidae

Last updated April 2026

Scarlet cleaner shrimpLysmata grabhami5 photos

Up to 6 cm1–40mRocky reefCave

A small cleaner shrimp with a scarlet body, a bright white mid-stripe and long white antennae. It runs cleaning stations on Atlantic-island reefs, picking parasites from fish and moray eels that queue up for the service.

Brown spiny lobster, Scarlet cleaner shrimp

Observed at

Punta Restinga(El Hierro)El Río(El Hierro)

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