Saturday, 7 May 2011


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_shrimp

HARLEY STREET doctors and QUIN (turn of the screw - or was that QUINT - same difference, both names were used by TODDY)?

Anyway, the above HARLEQUIN SHRIMP looks photoshopped to me...that JESUIT ORANGE thing in the background...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_shrimp




Gnathophyllidae is a pantropical and subtropical family of shrimp in the superfamily Palaemonoidea.[1] They are often associated with echinoderms.[2]

There are 5 genera and 14 species:[3]
Gnathophylleptum d'Udekem d'Acoz, 2001
Gnathophylloides Schmitt, 1933
Gnathophyllum Latreille, 1819
Hymenocera Bruce, 1973
Levicaris Bruce, 1972

[edit] References

1.^ P. J. F. Davie (2002). "Gnathophyllidae". Zoological Catalogue of Australia: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). CSIRO Publishing. pp. 248–250. ISBN 0-643-06791-4.
2.^ Raymond T. Bauer (2004). "Symbioses". Remarkable Shrimps: Adaptations and Natural History of the Carideans. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 179–203. ISBN 9780806135557.
3.^ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Painted shrimp, Hymenocera picta

Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Arthropoda

Subphylum:

Crustacea

Class:

Malacostraca

Order:

Decapoda

Infraorder:

Caridea

Superfamily:

Palaemonoidea

Family:

Gnathophyllidae
Dana,

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