Transparent Animals

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Cleaner Shrimp

Facts

• Order: Decapods
• Family: Palaemonidae
• Habitat: Philippines

Transparent Part: Body, Legs

Dot, dot, comma, dash - and that’s the cleaner shrimp vir philippinenis. Just a couple of blue-black lines let you see the rough shape of this animal’s body. This shrimp is just a few inches long, lives off coral and is found in the Philippines.

Cleaner Shrimp - Photo: J.S. Lamy/Shutterstock

• Table of Contents:
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Glass Frog
• 2. Glass Squid
• 3. Leaf-Mining Beetle
• 4. Crocodile Icefish
• 5. Sea Walnut
• 6. Cleaner Shrimp
• 7. Indian Glassy Fish
• 8. Sea Angel
• 9. Glasswing Butterfly
• 10. Barreleye Fish