Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Periclimenes imperator

Periclimenes imperator

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Original - Periclimenes imperator is a species of shrimp that lives commensally on a number of hosts. The specimen shown here is living on Bohadschia argus, a species of sea cucumber.

Reason

A featured image on Commons, and a finalist for the 2009 picture of the year. Beautiful image of a rather interesting little creature, living atop another weird little creature.

Articles in which this image appears

Periclimenes imperator, sea cucumber

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Others

Creator

Nhobgood (Nick Hobgood)

• Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 23:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support Excellent photo with high EV --George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:45, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom. --Avenue (talk) 09:56, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Time3000 (talk) 06:44, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Colorful too. Mikael Häggström (talk) 17:43, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support Brilliant Hive001 contact 08:30, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support. The background animal could be viewed either as attractive or a distraction. Since it adds EV and draws you in, I'd say the former. Mostlyharmless (talk) 02:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Periclimenes imperator (Emperor shrimp) on Bohadschia argus (Sea cucumber).jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:22, 17 June 2010 (UTC)