Squat shrimp
Amazing fact
The squat shrimp arches its abdomen and tail up toward its head when resting.
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The squat shrimp arches its abdomen and tail up toward its head when resting.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Squat shrimp
- Scientific name
- Thor amboinensis
- Japanese name
- イソギンチャクモエビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Thoridae
- Genus
- Thor
How the Squat shrimp lives
It is active by day and by night. It eats plankton and other matter caught in its host anemone's mucus. It uses its fan-shaped tail to steer while swimming. Females carry developing eggs beneath their abdomen.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Range
- Tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific
Where the Squat 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
- イソギンチャクモエビ
- 简体中文
- 白斑拖虾
- 繁體中文
- 安波托蝦
- 한국어
- 섹시새우
- Español
- Camarón de anémonas
- Français
- Crevette danseuse
- Deutsch
- Hohlkreuzgarnele
- Português (Brasil)
- Camarão-da-anémona
- Italiano
- Gamberetto gobbo degli anemoni
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 — イソギンチャクモエビChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Thor amboinensisChecked: 2026-11-06
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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