Metapontonia fungiacola Coral Shrimp, Scorpion Shrimp

Metapontonia fungiacola is commonly referred to as Coral Shrimp, Scorpion Shrimp. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

15462 

AphiaID:

209439 

Scientific:

Metapontonia fungiacola 

German:

Pilzkorallen Garnele 

English:

Coral Shrimp, Scorpion Shrimp 

Category:

Креветки 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Palaemonidae (Family) > Metapontonia (Genus) > fungiacola (Species) 

Initial determination:

Bruce, 1967 

Occurrence:

Aldabra Group, Comores, Corea, Indian Ocean, Japan, Kenya, Mayotte, Mozambique, Okinawa, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Réunion , Taiwan, Tansania, the Seychelles 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

2 - 3 Meter 

Habitats:

Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

0" - 0.39" (0,2cm - 1,6cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 

Food:

No reliable information available 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Metapontonia fungiacola
  Pilzkorallen Garnele
• 
  Metapontonia scorpio
  Gepunktete Korallen-Garnele, Gepunktete Skorpion-Garnele

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2022-12-27 13:49:59 

Last edit:

2025-09-20 09:20:26 

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