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Related FAQs: Pistol Shrimps
1, Pistol Shrimps 2,
Alpheid ID, Alpheid Behavior,
Alpheid Compatibility,
Alpheid Selection, Alpheid Systems,
Pistol
Shrimp and Goby Biotopes, Alpheid Feeding,
Alpheid Disease, Alpheid
Reproduction, & Cleaner Shrimps 1, Cleaner
Shrimps 2,
Coral Banded Shrimp,
Dancing Shrimp, Harlequin
Shrimp, Saron
Shrimp, Shrimp Identification, Shrimp Selection,
Shrimp Behavior, Shrimp
Compatibility, Shrimp Systems, Shrimp
Feeding, Shrimp Reproduction, Shrimp
Disease, Crustacean
Identification, Crustacean Selection,
Crustacean Behavior,
Crustacean Compatibility, Crustacean Systems,
Crustacean Feeding,
Crustacean Disease, Crustacean Reproduction,
Related Articles: Shrimps,
A Few Common
Shrimps for the Marine Aquarium by James W. Fatherree,
Shrimp Gobies, Stenopus
hispidus/Coral Banded Shrimp, Dancing Shrimp,
Harlequin Shrimp, Saron
Shrimp, Periclimenes
holthuisi Pix, Biological
Cleaners,
/A Diversity of Aquatic Life
Pistol Shrimp, Family Alpheidae
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Family Alpheidae, Pistol Shrimp
Seldom seen, often heard... and the results of their "shooting"
known far and wide... the Alpheids can be easily identified (if you can find
them) by their very short eye stalks and one much larger "pistol"
claw. This specialized appendage is capable of punching holes in all
crustacean exoskeletons, even many shellfish! Alpheus and Synalpheus species are
the notable symbionts with Shrimp Gobies.
Pistol Shrimp are the predominant crustaceans on the
world's reefs... and so you are likely to run into them... they eat most all
types of foods... and if kept fed will often leave other crustaceans and
mollusks alone. See happily fed specimen above in title bar.
| Snapping Shrimps, family Alpheidae. Noted for their
noise making capacity, myths re the power of their large claw (a .22
caliber, tank-cracking...) and commensal to mutualistic relationships with
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| Synalpheus stimpsonii (Man 1888). White
body with varying dark markings. A crinoid (Comanthina, Oxycomanthus)
commensal that often displays contrasting color to its host. East
Indo-West Pacific; Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Australia. N.
Sulawesi pix. |
 
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| Unidentified Alpheid in a crinoid. N. Sulawesi pic. Yes, it
really is THIS red! |
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