Fire shrimp
Amazing fact
Fire shrimp have red bodies, white antennae and white spots on the shell covering the head and thorax.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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Fire shrimp have red bodies, white antennae and white spots on the shell covering the head and thorax.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Fire shrimp
- Scientific name
- Lysmata debelius
- Japanese name
- シロボシアカモエビ（ホワイトソックス）
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Lysmatidae
- Genus
- Lysmata
It lives from the seas south of Yakushima across the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
It eats parasites and other things in the mouths and on the bodies of other animals, and it is also called a cleaner shrimp.
The tips of its legs are white, and it is sometimes called the "white socks shrimp".
How the Fire shrimp lives
This shrimp lives on the seabed.
海遊館Basic data
- Diet
- Parasites and other food
- Range
- South of Yakushima, western Pacific Ocean to Indian Ocean
Where the Fire 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
- 简体中文
- 模里西斯鞭腕虾
- 繁體中文
- 模里西斯鞭腕蝦
- Español
- Camarón limpiador escarlata
- Deutsch
- Kardinals-Putzergarnele
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 — シロボシアカモエビ（ホワイトソックス）Checked: 2026-11-04
- 海遊館 — シロボシアカモエビChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — シロボシアカモエビChecked: 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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