White band cleaner shrimp

Scientific name : Lysmata amboinensis

Cleaner shrimp with a distinctive colour pattern, orange with a longitudinal red band on back, crossed by a narrower white band. Typical white spots on tail, white long antennae (3 pairs) and white anterior part of the thin claws. 6 cm.
Unimistakable in our area for the colour pattern. In the Atlantic ocean Lysmata grabhami, very similar, considered the same species by some authors.

Associated organisms
An important and reknown cleaner, usually associated with large sedentary predator fishes like groupers and morays, on which can clean also the teeth from food remains. Generally shrimps are very appreciated by fish as cleaners, because are more delicate and precise than the cleaner wrasses. It is likely that the colour pattern, with the typically displayed white areas, is an identification signal as cleaner.