Was looking through some of ninamaro's photo collection from the recent Lembeh trip. She did have a couple of good shots of the highly sought after dragon / tiger shrimp. I have not personally seen one & unfortunately missed it in Lembeh. while pressing the zoom in & out button back and forth on the adobe lightroom, it took me sometime to locate the position of its eyes & other parts of the body. My curiosity began to grow & tried searching the internet for some additional information on this unique species. Well, to no avail; there is not much of info available on the web which I can find despite trying out 2 major search engines with Google & Yahoo.

All I got was it is a unique rare species & the scientific name is ceratophthalmus. Other than that, I was provided info related to : tiger shrimp tempura, Hong Kong sweet & sour tiger shrimp recipe & most of all the most listed results was an instant noodle by Weightwatches which bear the same name & claim to have low calorie as well ( 240 Kcl ) .. for 1 serving ... !!!

After searching for almost an hour, exhausted; the tiger shrimp low mein seems more appetizing than pursuing on the internet search. So, for now .. enjoy the pics guys ... & the low mein too if you happen to get hold of one ..

Up close & personal with the dragon shrimp

Pair of these dragon shrimp in Police Pier, Lembeh Straits

Photo courtesy of Ninamaro