15th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Touch-Me-Not Sponge Shrimp Tending Worms
The lumpish Touch-Me-Not sponge, dermaititis-causing and filled with symbiotic polychaete worms, is also home to a seldom seen, always difficult to find, species of tiny shrimp found nowhere else but in these sponges. Here's one doing its thing.
Photo Detail
| Date Taken: | 10.2017 |
| Date Uploaded: | 11.2017 |
| Photo Location: | Cayman Islands |
| Camera: | E-M1 |
| Copyright: | © William Goodwin |