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Heterocarpus
Sign in to saveHeterocarpus is a genus of deep-sea shrimp, mainly of tropical areas all over the world.
Species
nylon shrimps
Genus
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyPandalidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 381
- With media
- 21
- Family
- Pandalidae
- Collections
- SIO, USNM, NMV, CAS, YPM
- Recorded in
- Chile, Japan, Australia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Belize, French Polynesia, Angola
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Encyclopedic overview
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Heterocarpus is a genus of deep-sea shrimp, mainly of tropical areas all over the world.
==Description== Heterocarpus is characterised by the highly unequal second pair of pereiopods: one side is long and thin and the other is short but stronger, besides the carapace with one or more longitudinal carinae.
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