Divers have a new reason to visit Kenting, even if it is something they can barely see. Tiny hairy shrimp, under a centimeter in size, have been spotted in Kenting’s waters and were filmed by a diver there recently, drawing plenty of interest.
This is a hairy shrimp filmed by a diver in waters off Kenting. As the name suggests, the mollusk has tiny hairs on its shell. One can also see its eyes and long antennae.
Divers in Kenting have spotted both orange and the much rarer green variety of hairy shrimp.
Also known as algae shrimp, the crustaceans are tiny, under a centimeter in length and often barely 5 millimeters. They’re mostly found in waters in East Asia. To catch a glimpse of them, Taiwanese divers have headed in the past to the Lembeh Strait in northern Indonesia.
But local divers are thrilled to have found that compared with the Lembeh Strait, Kenting’s waters have far more of the tiny creatures.
Diver who Filmed Shrimp (voice)
In Kenting, the coverage rate is about three to five shrimp every 4 square meters. When I’ve been in the Lembeh Strait, you might see two or three in an entire diving area.
The diver said the hairy shrimp can be seen in all of Kenting’s best known diving spots. Some divers from abroad have even booked flights to visit Taiwan to see the precious shrimp.
海蝦的種類百百種，但是全身長毛的蝦子您見過嗎？最近有潛水客在墾丁海域發現為數不少的〔毛毛蝦〕，這種體積相當小的蝦子，在墾丁密度居然比在印尼知名的藍碧海峽要高，讓潛水客興奮不已，把拍攝到的畫面PO上網，已經有國外的潛水愛好者訂了機票，要專程到墾丁來欣賞．
這就是潛水客在墾丁拍到的毛毛蝦，顧名思義，牠的背甲外頭佈滿細毛，換個角度看，還可以看到眼睛，以及長長的觸角。
除了紅褐色的之外，這次潛水客在墾丁，還找到綠色的。
毛毛蝦體積不大，大都不到一公分，有的甚至只有0.5公分長，主要分布在亞洲，從日本到印尼的海域可以零星找得到，國內有潛水愛好者會到印尼知名的藍碧海峽，去看牠。
但實際和墾丁海域比較後，驚喜的發現，墾丁海域的分佈其實比印尼多得多。
[[聲音來源:拍攝畫面潛水客]]
“(墾丁)覆蓋率的範圍大概是，2米乘以2米範圍內，大概會有三到五隻(毛毛蝦) ，但是通常我在印尼藍碧海峽，可能就是一整個海域，可以看到兩三隻就很多了“
潛水客說，在墾丁包括後壁湖、出水口、合界和砂島等著名的潛水點，都可以看到毛毛蝦的身影，現在已經有國外潛水愛好者訂了機票，打算到台灣來欣賞毛毛蝦。
文章出處 ：民視英語新聞
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