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I caught this little guy under a floating dock in Cape Canaveral FL. Anyone else have an Idea what he is? Google lens is stumped. It keeps telling me a pipe fish or cuttlefish, lol.
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The body reminds me of some type of palaemonetes shrimp (ghost/glass/grass shrimp). Many species are native to Florida so it’s a possibility.
 
Brown Grass Shrimp

Leander tenuicornis
+1 to this - Female Leander tenuicornis (differentiated from males by the ocelli - the spots on the side there - and by a taller and wider rostrum; not all females have the ocelli, but males reportedly never have them; male rostrums are shorter and leaner):
https://txmarspecies.tamug.edu/invertdetails.cfm?scinameID=Leander tenuicornis
The body reminds me of some type of palaemonetes shrimp (ghost/glass/grass shrimp). Many species are native to Florida so it’s a possibility.
Same family actually, so pretty close there!
 
+1 to this - Female Leander tenuicornis (differentiated from males by the ocelli - the spots on the side there - and by a taller and wider rostrum; not all females have the ocelli, but males reportedly never have them; male rostrums are shorter and leaner):
https://txmarspecies.tamug.edu/invertdetails.cfm?scinameID=Leander tenuicornis
Same family actually, so pretty close there!
You changed your picture @ISpeakForTheSeas . Did you get a frog fish, I love the colors!
 
+1 to this - Female Leander tenuicornis (differentiated from males by the ocelli - the spots on the side there - and by a taller and wider rostrum; not all females have the ocelli, but males reportedly never have them; male rostrums are shorter and leaner):
https://txmarspecies.tamug.edu/invertdetails.cfm?scinameID=Leander tenuicornis
Same family actually, so pretty close there!
i crossed off something on my bucket list!

Get approval of obscure critter ID from @ISpeakForTheSeas!
 

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