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Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 0 records
- February: 0 records
- March: 0 records
- April: 1 records
- May: 1 records
- June: 5 records
- July: 0 records
- August: 0 records
- September: 1 records
- October: 0 records
- November: 0 records
- December: 0 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 20°C
Names and classification
- English
- flexed shrimp
Names in 4 more languages
- Spanish
- Camarón corva
- French
- Bouc courbe
- Japanese
- コシマガリモエビ
- Korean
- 혹등좁은뿔꼬마새우
Other scientific names: Eualus geniculata, Hippolyte geniculata, Spirontocaris alcimede
Similar species
toy shrimpHeptacarpus futilirostris
Squat anemone shrimpThor amboinensis
- Deepsea eualid
Eualus biunguis
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 13 open-data records from 2006 to 2021.
- Species data updated November 3, 2026.
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