Shrimpfish, also called Razorfish, tend to hold motionless head-downwards among corals, seagrass or spines of long-spined sea urchins for camouflage from predators. Prey is plankton or small parasites on sea urchins. The Striped Shrimpfish is native to reefs and coasts of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific (to Hawaii).

Its can vary its body colour from golden to silver with a black stripe from snout tip to tail, the body ending in a sharp spine. It grows to 15cm (6 inches) long. Although related to seahorses and pipefish, they spawn eggs into the current.

The Speckled Shrimpfish or Speckled Razorfish is native to reefs of the coasts of eastern Africa and the western Indian Ocean. It has small black spots rather than the long black stripe and also grows to 15cm long.