Lysmata vittata

Lysmata vittata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Caridea
Family:	Hippolytidae
Genus:	Lysmata
Species:	L. vittata
Binomial name
	Lysmata vittata; (Stimpson, 1860)
Synonyms
	Hippolysmata vittata Stimpson, 1860; Nauticaris unirecedens Bate, 1888; Hippolysmata durbanensis Stebbing, 1921;

The peppermint shrimp (Lysmata vittata) is a species of shrimp, native to the Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Philippines, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.^[2]

Lysmata vittata has been suggested as a cleaner shrimp species in aquaculture. This species has been show to successfully remove different parasite species from the orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides) fish hosts as well as free living stages of Cryptocaryon irritans. Out of four species of clear shrimp that were compared it was the most effective in reducing parasite numbers.^[3]

References

^ "Lysmata vittata (Stimpson, 1860)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
^ ^a ^b S. T. Ahyong (2010). "New species and new records of Caridea (Hippolytidae: Pasiphaeidae) from New Zealand" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2372: 341–357.
^ Vaughan, David B.; Grutter, Alexandra S.; Hutson, Kate S. (18 September 2018). "Cleaner shrimp are a sustainable option to treat parasitic disease in farmed fish". Scientific Reports. 8 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-018-32293-6.

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[1] "Lysmata vittata (Stimpson, 1860)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

[Ahyong-2] S. T. Ahyong (2010). "New species and new records of Caridea (Hippolytidae: Pasiphaeidae) from New Zealand" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2372: 341–357.

[3] Vaughan, David B.; Grutter, Alexandra S.; Hutson, Kate S. (18 September 2018). "Cleaner shrimp are a sustainable option to treat parasitic disease in farmed fish". Scientific Reports. 8 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-018-32293-6.

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