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Genus of crustaceans

Shinkaia crosnieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
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 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.

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.
Taxon identifiers
Shinkaia
Shinkaia crosnieri


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