Tags: Crustacean.

The genus Periclimenes contains a large number of species of shrimp that live symbiotically with larger animals most commonly sea anemones although some corals sea stars sea cucumbers. In the case of the imperial shrimp P. imperator the Spanish dancer sea slug Hexabranchus sanguineus is often the preferred host.The genus contains the following species:

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