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Skeleton Shrimp

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Photo by CoralAvery
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Field Notes

Description:

Small red-pink and yellow skeleton shrimp blending into their surroundings. (It's the lighter area of the plant in the center of the picture)

Habitat:

Spotted hiding in tide pools at La Jolla Shores.

Notes:

If these creatures weren't moving so much I would have never seen them. I was already digging around under grasses and other plants so nobody would have noticed these tiny things about the width of a paper clip and as long as a hole punched circles in a piece of paper.
The first photo shows how well it blends in with its habitat.
These photos were taken with my mom's camera.

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Comments (5)
CoralAvery
Haha! Ya these little guys are really weird. I had no idea these things existed and I didn't know there was a species of shrimp this small. They have such good camouflage-it's a miracle I even saw it. :)
aldrin
i can't tell where the shrimp is on the first pic.. hehehe

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PublishedNovember 23, 2011

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