• Submitted by: manso
• Society
• 10 / 24 / 2010

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2010.10.22 - 18:35:08 / [email protected]. Cienfuegos, Cuba.- A shellfish species known as kinglet rock shrimp, which is not typically found in the warm waters of the Caribbean, was reported by Cuban scientists in Cienfuegos Bay.

According to researcher Raul Fernandez Garcia of the Environmental Studies Center of Cienguegos (CEAC), this type of shrimp of the genus Sicyonia typical has never been seen in the bay.

The expert told the local press that finding does not have a commercial value, but only a biological value because kinglet rock shrimps captured in the Cuban coast are not bigger than eight centimeters.

Other sea species had been previously sighted such as the green-lipped mussel that was widely expanded in the bay and the lionfish, which has turned out to be more attractive than ferocious.

Because of its favorable weather and little contamination despite the industrial development, Cienfuegos bay is home to the white and pink shrimp and to important colonies of green and red algae.

Throughout his scientific career, Fernandez Garcia has reported around 30 species of mussels close or linked to the bay.

Source: ACN