Shinkaia

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Shinkaia crosnieri
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Anomura
Family:
Munidopsidae
Genus:
Shinkaia

Baba & Williams, 1998
Species:
S. crosnieri
Binomial name
Shinkaia crosnieri
Baba & Williams, 1998

Shinkaia crosnieri is a species of squat lobster in a monotypic genus [1] in the family Munidopsidae. S. crosnieri lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems, living off of the chemosynthetic activity of certain bacteria living on its setae. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Keiji Baba; Enrique Macpherson; Gary C. B. Poore; Shane T. Ahyong; Adriana Bermudez; Patricia Cabezas; Chia-Wei Lin; Martha Nizinski; Celso Rodrigues & Kareen E. Schnabel (2008). "Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura – families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1905: 1–220. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1 .
  2. ↑ Shane T. Ahyong; Keiji Baba; Enrique Macpherson & Gary C. B. Poore (2010). "A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)" (PDF). Zootaxa . 2676: 57–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.4.


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