#4459 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Chamaeleon Prawn
🇳🇱 Veranderlijke garnaal ·Hippolyte varians
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Hippolyte varians , also called the chameleon shrimp , is a species of broken-backed shrimp in the family Hippolytidae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 55 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #24 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 518 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Chamaeleon Prawn
- Nederlands
- Veranderlijke garnaal
- scientific name
- Hippolyte varians
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Hippolytidae
- sightings in NL
- 55
- sightings in Europe
- 403
- sightings worldwide
- 518
- GBIF records in NL
- 216
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 493968, Wikidata Q4471446, GBIF 5178664, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.