Likely Reef Tank Suitable
Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable
Range: Indo-West Pacific Ocean: Indonesia to Australia and Japan.
Size: 0.5 inch (1.5 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabits coastal reefs and seen in association with black corals, gorgonians, and hydroids.
Aquarium Suitability: Lives in gorgonians, black corals, and hydroids.
Rarely seen in the wild and not collected for the aquarium trade.
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Subclass: Eumalacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Superfamily: Majoidea
Family: Epialtidae
Genus: Xenocarcinus
FYI: Shown here for identification only.