#4562 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Banded Coral Shrimp
Stenopus hispidus
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © uwkwaj · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Alexander Semenov · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © terence zahner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andrew Townsend · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0
- 6. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Long Baya, Bermuda, BM:© Luke Foster · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Devonshire Parish, Bermuda:© Miguel A Mejias, PhD. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 대한민국 제주특별자치도 서귀포시 서귀동:© seokwoo_hong · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Hawaii, US:© Olie Turner III · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Stenopus hispidus is a shrimp-like decapod crustacean belonging to the infraorder Stenopodidea. Common names include banded coral shrimp and banded cleaner shrimp .
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,992 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1811 (215 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Banded Coral Shrimp
- scientific name
- Stenopus hispidus
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Stenopodidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,992
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1811 by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 121669, Wikidata Q935625, GBIF 5178716, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.