Shinkaia
Sign in to saveShinkaia 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.
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Vinony files it under Monotypic decapod genera, Squat lobsters and Taxa named by Keiji Baba.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyMunidopsidae
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- Munidopsidae
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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==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shinkaia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.