Ryan Photographic - Lysmatidae - Broken-back cleaner shrimps
Family Lysmatidae
There are currently 65 species of shrimps classified into seven genera according to the World Register of Marine Species (with the delightful acronym of WoRMS). The family is widely distributed in the world's oceans both temperate and tropical. Many of them are cleaner shrimps and, in the case of Lysmata amboinensis anyway, quite happy to clean human human orifices and appendages.
Lysmata amboinensis White-banded cleaner shrimp
Lysmata amboinensis White-banded cleaner shrimp 2
Lysmata amboinensis White-banded cleaner shrimp Puerto Galera, Philippines IMG_8049
Lysmata amboinensis White-banded cleaner shrimp. House reef, Paradise Taveuni, Fiji IMG_2523
Lysmata amboinensis, House Reef, Paradise Resort, Taveuni, Fiji IMG_2528
Lysmata amboinensis cleaning human mouth, Kadavu, Fiji
Lysmata amboinensis White banded cleaner shrimp Hippolytidae cleaning fingers, Steve's Bommie Great Barrier Reef IMG_8608