Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

Skunk cleaner shrimp
Lysmata amboinens

The Skunk cleaner shrimp also known as the Pacific cleaner shrimp,Lysmata amboinensis is an extraordinarily little shrimp,it is an omnivorous shrimp species, which will generally scavenge and eat parasites and dead tissue off fish. The Skunk cleaner shrimp is widespread in the Red Sea and tropical Indo-Pacific.Skunk cleaner shrimp are also known to eat its own kind during mating season. Once reproduction has occurred and the eggs have been fertilized the shrimp acting as the male may eat the female.