Likely Reef Tank Suitable
Not Suitable for Fish-Only Tank
Range: Indo-West Pacific Ocean: Red Sea and South Africa to Indonesia, New Caledonia and Japan.
Size: 2 inches (5 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabits shallow coral reefs and lives solely on Black Corals.
Aquarium Suitability: Not collected for the home tropical aquarium trade.
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Hippolytidae
Genus: Tozeuma
FYI: Shown here for identification only.
Rarely ever seen in the wild and a nocturnal, odd-shaped shrimp.