Lysmata seticaudata (Decapoda, Crustacea) als Putzergarnele im Mittelmeer

Abstract

Members of the shrimp species Lysmata seticaudata were observed to clean a morrey eel in the western Mediterranean Sea (Baleares, Spain). In contrast to the cleaning symbiosis of tropical shrimps, several Lysmata species have only one host, thus representing a primitive type of cleaning behaviour. Lysmata seticaudata is not dependent upon cleaning for food and usually these shrimps are found without a host. © 1982 Biologische Anstalt Helgoland.