Acanthacaris caeca

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Acanthacaris caeca
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Nephropidae
Genus: Acanthacaris
Species:
A. caeca
Binomial name
Acanthacaris caeca

Acanthacaris caeca is a species of deep-water lobster. [2] [1] It was originally described under the name Phoberus caecus by Alphonse Milne-Edwards. [1] [3] Lacking eyes, A. caeca is blind. [4]

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Habitat

Acanthacaris caeca are found in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico. [3] [5] [6] They are generally found in burrows between 550 and 825 m (1,800 and 2,710 ft), but they can be found as deep as 880 m (2,890 ft) and as shallow as 290 m (950 ft). [3] They burrow exclusively in muddy environments, and the burrows are 10 to 20 cm (4 to 8 in) deep. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Milne-Edwards, Alphonse (1881). "Description de Quelques Crustacés Macroures Provenant des Grandes Profondeurs de la Mer des Antilles". Annales des Sciences Naturelles (in French). 11 (6): 1–16.
  2. ↑ Felder, Darryl L.; Álvarez, Fernando; Goy, Joseph W.; Lemaitre, Rafael. "Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea". In Felder, Darryl L.; Camp, David K. (eds.). Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota (PDF). Vol. I, Biodiversity. pp. 1019–1104. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2023– via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
  3. 1 2 3 Holthuis, Lipke B. (December 1974). "Biological Results of the University of Miami Deep-Sea Expeditions. 106. The Lobsters of the Superfamily Nephropidea of the Atlantic Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda)". Bulletin of Marine Science . 24 (4): 723–884.
  4. ↑ Wahle, Richard A.; Tshudy, Dale; Cobb, J. Stanley; Factor, Jan; Mahima, Jaini (20 March 2012). "Infraorder Astacidea Latreille, 1802 p.p.: the marine clawed lobsters". In Schram, Frederick; von Vaupel Klein, Carel (eds.). The Crustacea. Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. Vol. 9B. Brill. pp. 59–60. doi:10.1163/9789047430179_003. ISBN   978-90-04-17673-7. The absence of eyes in the deepwater Acanthacaris caeca (A. Milne-Edwards, 1881) suggests either a more cryptic existence, or a greater dependence on the other sensory modes.
  5. ↑ Silva, K. C. A.; Cruz, R.; Cintra, I. H. A.; Abrunhosa, F. A. (January 2013). "Structure and diversity of the lobster community on the Amazon continental shelf". Crustaceana . 86 (9): 1084–1102. doi:10.1163/15685403-00003227. S2CID   85075976.
  6. ↑ Briones-Fourzán, P.; Lozano-Álvarez, E.; Vázquez-Bader, A.R.; Gracia, A. (2020). "Deep-Sea Lobsters (Polychelidae and Nephropidae) from the Continental Slope of the Southern Gulf of Mexico: Distribution and Morphometric Relationships". In Hendrickx, Michel E. (ed.). Deep-Sea Pycnogonids and Crustaceans of the Americas. Springer Nature. pp. 311–341. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58410-8_13. ISBN   978-3-030-58409-2.
  7. ↑ Correa, Thiago B.S.; Eberli, Gregor P.; Grasmueck, Mark; Reed, John K.; Correa, Adrienne M.S. (October 2012). "Genesis and morphology of cold-water coral ridges in a unidirectional current regime". Marine Geology . 326–328: 14–27. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2012.06.008.
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