Caprella bathytatos
Appearance
Caprella bathytatos | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Amphipoda |
Family: | Caprellidae |
Genus: | Caprella |
Species: | C. bathytatos
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Binomial name | |
Caprella bathytatos Martin & Pettit, 1998
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Caprella bathytatos is a species of skeleton shrimp in the genus Caprella.[1] It was described in 1998 by Joel W. Martin and Gary Pettit, who discovered it living on the mouthparts of the crab Macroregonia macrochira near hydrothermal vents in British Columbia.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Jim Lowry (2010). Lowry J (ed.). "Caprella bathytatos Martin & Pettit, 1998". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ^ Joel W. Martin & Gary Pettit (1998). "Caprella bathytatos new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidae), from the mouthparts of the crab Macroregonia macrochira Sakai (Brachyura, Majidae) in the vicinity of deep-sea hydrothermal vents off British Columbia". Bulletin of Marine Science. 63 (1): 189–198.