Candy Striped Shrimp

How to Distinguish from Similar Species: The bright colored bands on this shrimp are distinctive.

Geographical Range: Aleutian Islands, Alaska to Puget Sound

Depth Range: 6-180 m

As with other hippolytid shrimp, this species has no exopodites on its pereopods, the carpus of pereopod 2 is divided into 3-7 subunits, and a rostrum is present but if it has dorsal spines they are not movable. Lebbeus grandimanus has 7 articles on the carpus of its 2nd pereopod. It has one supraorbital spine. It has no exopodite on maxilliped 3, the rostrum is longer than the eye, the ventral margin of the pleura of abdominal segments 2 and 3 are rounde, and leg 3 has no epipodite. The body is translucent and covered with bright yellow, blue, and red bands. Length to 4.5 cm.

Biology/Natural History: Often lives on rocks in association with the above anemones, remaining on the base of the column or foraging around on the oral disk picking up scraps. The shrimp seems immune to the anemone's nematocysts. They have been found in the guts of Pacific Halibut off Alaska. Sometimes parasitized by the isopod gill chamber parasite Bopyroides hippolytes.

Often lives on rocks in association with the anemone Cribrinopsis fernaldi, Urticina crassicornis, U. piscivora, or U. columbiana. Most commonly associated with Cribrinopsis.