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Saron
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Saron

Saron is a small genus of caridean prawns from the family Thoridae, which were formerly classified as part of the Hipploytidae, the cleaner shrimps. Some species are kept in the marine aquarium trade. These are common on the reefs of the Indo-Pacific region and it is though that there may be many more species yet to be described due to the high variability in colour observed.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Marbled Shrimp

speciesSaron marmoratus

Eyespot Shrimp

speciesSaron neglectus

Saron inermis

speciesSaron inermis

Saron rectirostris

speciesSaron rectirostris

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51199.