Cyanagraea

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Cyanagraea
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A consortium of crabs in an area of hydrothermal activity
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Bythograeidae
Genus: Cyanagraea
de Saint Laurent, 1984
Species:
C. praedator
Binomial name
Cyanagraea praedator

Cyanagraea praedator is a species of crab that lives on hydrothermal vents, and the only species in the genus Cyanagraea. [1] [2]

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It is found at depths of 2,535–2,630 m (8,317–8,629 ft) on the East Pacific Rise, [3] where it lives "in the upper part of black smoker chimneys". [4] Its haemocyanin has a strong affinity for oxygen, and displays a significant Bohr effect, which is unaffected by lactic acid. [5]

Cyanagraea praedator is "by far the largest" species in the family Bythograeidae, growing to a maximum carapace size of 123.0 mm × 74.8 mm (4.84 in × 2.94 in). [3]

The leech Bathybdella sawyeri has been observed attached to C. praedator. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Peter Davie (2011). "Cyanagraea Saint Laurent, 1984". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved November 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot; Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  3. 1 2 Colin McLay (2007). "New crabs from hydrothermal vents of the Kermadec Ridge submarine volcanoes, New Zealand: Gandalfus gen. nov. (Bythograeidae) and Xenograpsus (Varunidae) (Decapoda: Brachyura)" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1524: 1–22. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1524.1.1.
  4. ↑ Fabienne Chausson; Christopher R. Bridges; Pierre-Marie Sarradin; Brian N. Green; Ricardo Riso; Jean-Claude Caprais; François H. Lallier (2001). "Structural and functional properties of hemocyanin from Cyanagraea praedator, a deep-sea hydrothermal vent crab". Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics . 45 (4): 351–359. doi:10.1002/prot.10014. PMID   11746683. S2CID   32797638.
  5. ↑ Stéphane Hourdez; François H. Lallier (August 2007). "Adaptations to hypoxia in hydrothermal-vent and cold-seep invertebrates" (PDF). Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology . 6 (1–3): 143–159. Bibcode:2007RESBT...6..143H. doi:10.1007/s11157-006-9110-3. S2CID   84727739. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-06.
  6. ↑ Eugene M. Burreson; Michel Segonzac (2006). "Morphological variability of Bathybdella sawyeri (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) from hydrothermal vents on the Galápagos Rift and the South East Pacific Rise" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa . 1286: 15–21.

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