Lysmata lipkei Peppermint shrimp

Lysmata lipkei is commonly referred to as Peppermint 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.

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lexID:: 9791
AphiaID:: 589294

Scientific:: Lysmata lipkei
German:: Putzergarnele
English:: Peppermint Shrimp

Category:: Gamberi

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Lysmatidae (Family) > Lysmata (Genus) > lipkei (Species)
Initial determination:: Okuno & Fiedler, 2010

Occurrence:: Japan
Size:: up to 2.36" (6 cm)
Temperature:: °F - 80.6 °F (°C - 27°C)
Food:: Copepods, Detritus, Fish eggs, Invertebrates, Zooplankton
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

Related species at Catalog of Life:

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2016-06-26 12:42:37
Last edit:: 2016-06-26 12:42:37

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Okuno & Fiedler, 2010

Very special thanks for this photo to budak from flickr, ID by Dr. Arthur Anker.

Lysmata lipkei is known from intertidal and sublittoral zones of the Boso Peninsula, Honshu and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
Morphologically,L. lipkei is closely
related to the eastern Indian Ocean species,
Lysmata dispar (Hayashi, 2007), but differs from the latter by the structure of the rostrum, the armature of the antennular peduncle, and the number of articulations of the second pereiopods.

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Multicrustacea (Superclass) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Caridea (Infraorder) > Alpheoidea (Superfamily) > Hippolytidae (Family) > Lysmata (Genus) > Lysmata lipkei (Species)

External links

Erstbeschreibung Lysmata lipkei (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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