The green carapace of this shrimp is said to be the same emerald hue as the sweeping hills that make up the Gensui Chain.
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As this shrimp ages, its body becomes a deep shade of green. It is reminiscent of a legend of the Gensui Chain about a hermit whose skin took on the hue of the sweeping hills he lived among, leading some locals to call the species “hermits”─to the discomfit of foreign diners.