East Asian Lined Shrimp
Amazing fact
East Asian lined shrimp sometimes remove parasites from fish.
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East Asian lined shrimp sometimes remove parasites from fish.
THE REAL WORLD
The real East Asian Lined Shrimp
- Scientific name
- Lysmata vittata
- Japanese name
- アカシマモエビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Lysmatidae
- Genus
- Lysmata
It lives in the seas south of the Boso Peninsula, in the Seto Inland Sea and around Kyushu.
How the East Asian Lined Shrimp lives
It eats both animal and plant food. In Chesapeake Bay, it has been found on shallow oyster flats and in deeper muddy channels.
Smithsonian Environmental Research CenterBasic data
- Range
- South of Boso Peninsula, Seto Inland Sea, and Kyushu
Where the East Asian Lined Shrimp has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アカシマモエビ
- 简体中文
- 鞭腕虾
- 繁體中文
- 紅紋鞭腕蝦
- 한국어
- 줄무늬꼬마새우
- Español
- Camarón rayado indio
- Français
- Bouc rayé indien
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アカシマモエビChecked: 2026-11-04
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center — Lysmata vittataChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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