swap_horiz Broken-back Shrimp Alternatives

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Peacock Mantis Shrimp

Odontodactylus scyllarus, known as the peacock mantis shrimp, is a marine predator found in Indo-Pacific waters. This st...

Marine Colorful Predator Stomatopoda

9.9 Brilliant

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Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

Skunk Cleaner Shrimp are small marine crustaceans belonging to the Lysmatidae family. These shrimp are notable for their...

Reef Marine Ornamental Cleaner

9.5 Brilliant

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Harlequin Shrimp

Harlequin shrimp, *Hymenocera picta*, are small marine crustaceans native to the Indo-Pacific region. They are distingui...

Marine Ornamental Indo Pacific Hymenoceridae

9.4 Excellent

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Emperor Shrimp

The Emperor Shrimp, *Zenopontonia rex*, is a small marine shrimp belonging to the Palaemonidae family. Notably, it estab...

Marine Ornamental Symbiotic Indo Pacific

9.4 Excellent

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Tiger Pistol Shrimp

The tiger pistol shrimp, *Alpheus bellulus*, is a marine crustacean belonging to the Alpheidae family. Notably, it exhib...

Marine Ornamental Symbiotic Alpheidae

9.3 Excellent

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Coral Pistol Shrimp

An Alpheus species that forms a well-documented symbiotic partnership with goby fish on coral reefs, sharing a burrow wh...

Reef Marine Wild Alpheidae

9.1 Excellent

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Pacific Cleaner Shrimp

The Pacific cleaner shrimp, Lysmata amboinensis, is a marine shrimp distributed across tropical parts of the Indo-Pacifi...

Marine Pacific Cleaner Wild

8.9 Great

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Chiragra Mantis Shrimp

The chiragra mantis shrimp, Gonodactylus chiragra, is a marine stomatopod found across tropical parts of the Indo-Pacifi...

Marine Wild Indo Pacific Stomatopoda

8.6 Great

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Arctic Lebbeid Shrimp

Lebbeus is a genus of marine decapod shrimp within the family Hippolytidae, comprising species that inhabit cold-water a...

Marine Arctic Deep Sea Cold Water

7.8 Good

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Elegant Bumble Bee Shrimp

Gnathophyllum elegans, commonly called the elegant bumble bee shrimp, is a small marine shrimp in the family Gnathophyll...

Mediterranean Marine Ornamental Wild

7.7 Good

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Chameleon Shrimp

The chameleon shrimp (Hippolyte varians) is a small marine crustacean distinguished by its remarkable ability to change...

European Marine Camouflage Hippolytidae

7.6 Good

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Lebbeus polaris

Lebbeus polaris is a species of marine cold-water shrimp in the family Hippolytidae, notable for its circumpolar distrib...

Marine Arctic Cold Water Deep

7.6 Good

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Blue Grass Shrimp

The blue grass shrimp is a selectively bred color morph of the freshwater crustacean Neocaridina davidi, which originate...

Marine Tropical Camouflage Hippolytidae

7.5 Good

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Bullseye Pistol Shrimp

The Bullseye Pistol Shrimp is a marine crustacean belonging to the snapping shrimp family, Alpheidae. It is distinguishe...

Marine Pacific Wild Alpheidae

7.4 Good

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Candy Stripe Shrimp

A cold-water North Pacific shrimp (Lebbeus grandimanus) recognized by vivid red-and-white striped patterning, found at m...

Marine Pacific Northwest Ornamental Wild

7.3 Good

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Saron Shrimp

The Saron shrimp (Saron marmoratus) is a nocturnal marine crustacean native to Indo-Pacific coral reefs. It features dis...

Marine Aquarium Ornamental Nocturnal

7.2 Good

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Shortnose Mantis Shrimp

A mantis shrimp species named for its abbreviated rostrum, found in shallow Indo-Pacific coastal waters where it uses ra...

Marine Wild Indo Pacific Stomatopoda

6.9 Fair

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Hairy Shrimp

A tiny Indo-Pacific marine shrimp covered in dense hair-like setae used for camouflage among algae and seagrass, rarely...

Marine Micro Wild Indo Pacific

6.7 Fair

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Elegant Rockpool Shrimp

Palaemon elegans, common in European coastal rockpools and estuaries from Norway to the Black Sea, is identified by its...

Marine Wild Intertidal North Atlantic

6.6 Fair

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Rockpool Prawn

Rockpool Prawn (Palaemon elegans) is a small, semi-transparent caridean shrimp abundant in European Atlantic and Mediter...

European Temperate Marine Intertidal

5.8 Mediocre