Dasycaris ceratops Horned Sea Pen Shrimp

Dasycaris ceratops is commonly referred to as Horned Sea Pen Shrimp. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

11015 

AphiaID:

220120 

Scientific:

Dasycaris ceratops 

German:

Gehörnte Seefedergarnele 

English:

Horned Sea Pen Shrimp 

Category:

Shrimps 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Palaemonidae (Family) > Dasycaris (Genus) > ceratops (Species) 

Initial determination:

Holthuis, 1952 

Occurrence:

(the) Maldives, Australia, Bali, China, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland (Australia), Red Sea, Tansania, Tulamben, Vietnam, Western Indian Ocean, Zanzibar 

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:

12 - 64 Meter 

Habitats:

Patch Reefs, Sandy sea floors, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

0" - 0.39" (0,5cm - 1,1cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 

Food:

No reliable information available 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Dasycaris ceratops
  Gehörnte Seefedergarnele
• Dasycaris doederleini
• Dasycaris symbiotes
• 
  Dasycaris zanzibarica
  Sansibar-Drahtkorallengarnele

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2017-08-30 19:13:45 

Last edit:

2025-10-11 17:40:32 

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