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Dactylonia ascidicola White-Spotted Ascidian Shrimp

Dactylonia ascidicola is commonly referred to as White-Spotted Ascidian Shrimp. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


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White-Spotted Ascidian Shrimp, Dactylonia ascidicola, Bali 2023


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lexID:
12113 
AphiaID:
468161 
Scientific:
Dactylonia ascidicola 
German:
Weißpunkt Seescheiden-Garnele 
English:
White-Spotted Ascidian Shrimp 
Category:
Gamberi 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Palaemonidae (Family) > Dactylonia (Genus) > ascidicola (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Borradaile, ), 1898 
Occurrence:
(the) Maldives, Bali, French Polynesia, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Israel, Papua New Guinea, Red Sea, South-Pazific, Tulamben 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
1,5 - 400 Meter 
Habitats:
Epibiont (living on other organisms), Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
up to 0.39" (1 cm) 
Temperature:
15,5 °F - 27,8 °F (15,5°C - 27,8°C) 
Food:
No reliable information available 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
More related species
in this lexicon
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-08-28 20:05:21 

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Dactylonia ascidicola (Borradaile, 1898)

Dactylonia ascidicola is a small shrimp living commensal with sea squirts. It was found in association with the sea squirt Herdmania momus. The sea squirt shrimp is transparent with white dots. A very similar probably undescribed species has yellow spots.

Synonymised names:
Pontonia ascidicola Borradaile, 1898

External links

  1. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 31.05.2023.

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