Hippolyte ventricosa Broken-back Shrimp

Hippolyte ventricosa is commonly referred to as Broken-back Shrimp. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater

Hippolyte ventricosa

These tiny shrimps were abundant clinging to Halimeda algae on sandy Kwajalein Atoll lagoon reefs.
Courtesy of the author Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater . Please visit www.underwaterkwaj.com for more information.

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AphiaID:: 210452

Scientific:: Hippolyte ventricosa
German:: Partnergarnele
English:: Broken-back Shrimp

Category:: Gamberi

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Hippolytidae (Family) > Hippolyte (Genus) > ventricosa (Species)
Initial determination:: H. Milne Edwards, 1837

Occurrence:: Fiji, French Polynesia, India, Indo-Pacific coral triangle, Indonesia, Iran, Marschall Islands, Mozambique, Red Sea, Singapore, Taiwan
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:: 0 - 5 Meter
Size:: 0,8 cm
Temperature:: °F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C)
Food:: No reliable information available
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Hippolyte acuta
Hippolyte californiensis
Hippolyte clarki
Clarks Kelp Garnele, Seegras Garnele
Hippolyte coerulescens
Hippolyte edmondsoni
Hippolyte nicholsoni
Hippolyte obliquimanus
Garnele
Hippolyte pleuracanthus
Hippolyte varians
Farbwechselnde Garnele, Chamaeleon Garnele, Variable Seegras Garnele
Hippolyte ventricosa
Partnergarnele
Hippolyte zostericola

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2023-04-23 19:35:34
Last edit:: 2023-04-23 19:51:33

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Hippolyte ventricosa H. Milne Edwards, 1837

Hippolyte is a genus of shrimp of the family Hippolytidae. Hippolyte is a genus of small bodied marine shrimps, with a global distribution.

Synonymised names:
Hippolyte ventricosus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet
Virbius Mossambicus Hilgendorf, 1879 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

External links

EOL (en). Abgerufen am 23.04.2023.
WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 23.04.2023.

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