Caribbean Cleaner Shrimp Lysmata grabhami

The Caribbean Cleaner Shrimp is native to caves and reef ledges in the northeastern and northwestern Atlantic Oceans. It the northwestern Atlantic, it lives off the coast of North America, Bermuda and the Caribbean. In the northeastern Atlantic, it lives around the Canary Islands, Madeira and Cape Verde Islands.

It grows to 6cm long excluding its long white antennae. It has offwhite flanks and underside with a scarlet back intersected by a bright white central line which continues to the end of the tail. There is a white border on the tail (unlike its relative, the Pacific Cleaner, where the white line stops with a "T" at the tail and the red tail has a central white spot and four small white spots on the edges.) Most of its diet is cleaning dead tissues and parasites from larger fish, which keeps the client fish healthy and provides the shrimp with food and protection from predators.