Saturday, December 03, 2005

Gorgonian Horned Shrimp


Diane once again found the highlight of the day: this Gorgonian Horned Shrimp (Periclemenes sp.). The only reference we could find of this species was in Macrolife: A Divers Guide to Underwater Malaysia. According to the authors (p.163), this species has only been identified with the gorgonians that they mimick. But at K41, the shrimp was on a whip coral, not a gorgonian.