Harlequin shrimp
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The English name of the harlequin shrimp means clown shrimp.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Harlequin shrimp
- Scientific name
- Hymenocera picta
- Japanese name
- フリソデエビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Hymenoceridae
- Genus
- Hymenocera
Its big left and right claws look like the long, flowing sleeves of a furisode kimono.
Basic data
- Diet
- Sea stars
- Range
- Suruga Bay and southward, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean
Where the Harlequin 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
- フリソデエビ
- 简体中文
- 油彩蜡膜虾
- 繁體中文
- 油彩蠟膜蝦
- Español
- Camarón arlequín
- Français
- Crevette arlequin
- Deutsch
- Harlekingarnele
- Português (Brasil)
- Camarão-arlequim
- Italiano
- Gambero arlecchino
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Udang pengantin
- ไทย
- กุ้งการ์ตูน
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 — フリソデエビChecked: 2026-11-04
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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