Homeryon is a genus of blind, deep-sea crustaceans. It is named after the blind Greek poet Homer and the genus Eryon, which contains fossil relatives of the modern Polychelidae. It was separated from the genus Polycheles in 2001, and contains only two species.
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Homeryon is a genus of blind, deep-sea crustaceans. It is named after the blind Greek poet Homer and the genus Eryon, which contains fossil relatives of the modern Polychelidae. It was separated from the genus Polycheles in 2001, and contains only two species.
==Homeryon armarium== Homeryon armarium is only known to occur on the Kyushu–Palau Ridge (the ocean ridge between Japan and Palau) at depths between . It is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.
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