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Egg Shell Shrimp / Pop Corn Shrimp

Hamopontonia corallicola

Photo by AlbertKang
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Field Notes

Description:

A small shrimp around 1.5cm in size, body is transparent except for the 2 white rounded prints which gave its name. Its limbs are decorated with pink dots.

Habitat:

Usually live commensally among Mushroom Coral

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PublishedMarch 31, 2014

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