Caprella bathytatos

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Crustacea Order Amphipoda Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Class Malacostraca Family Caprellidae People also search for Caprella mendax

Caprella bathytatos is a species of skeleton shrimp in the genus Caprella. 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.

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