Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Zenopontonia soror
Camarón de estrella marina, Sea star shrimp
(P. soror) Diner of sea stars.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Palaemonoidea
Family
Palaemonidae
Genus
Zenopontonia
Species
soror
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Periclimenes (Cristiger) frater Borradaile, 1915, Periclimenes bicolor Edmondson, 1935, Periclimenes frater Borradaile, 1915, Periclimenes parasiticus Borradaile, 1898, Periclimenes soror Nobili, 1904 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (P. soror) East Pacific from Gulf of California to Colombia and Ecuador including Galapagos Islands.
- Constant, P. (2007) Marine Life of the Galapagos. The Diver's guide to Fishes, Whales, Dolphins and marine Invertebrates, 307 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Zimmerman, T.L. (2000) A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 156 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Zenopontonia soror", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19930. Accessed 1 November 2026.