Boxing Shrimps: Genus Stenopus

10 Aug, 2022

Banded Coral Shrimp, Stenopus hispidus, in classic upside-down pose. Image: Scott W. Michael

THE ENIGMATIC BOXING SHRIMP
GENUS STENOPUS

Crustaceans in the Shadows

by Scott W. Michael

CORAL Magazine
September/October 2020

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