Tozeuma armatum - New Caledonia

I have been visiting the Hienghène dive sites for more than 10 years and I must have made more than 8000 dives there.

This shrimp had escaped my attention ... It is also possible that it is relatively rare ...
If you have already met her in New Caledonia your information interests me.

I found this small colony in the lagoon behind Hienghabat islet about ten meters deep on a whip gorgonian.

There were actually several individuals and certainly males (the young) and females.

One of the females carries eggs (Click to enlarge the images)

Reign of Animalia
Arthropoda branch
Sub-ember. crustacea
Malacostraca class
Eumalacostraca subclass
Eucarida Superorder
Decapoda Order
Suborder Pleocyemata
Caridea infra-order
Alpheoidea superfamily
Family Hippolytidae
Genus Tozeuma armatum (Paul'son, 1875)

(WoRMS source : World Register of Marine Species)