Acanthephyra
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| Acanthephyra | |
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| Preserved specimens of A. pelagica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Acanthephyridae |
| Genus: | Acanthephyra A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 |
| Type species | |
| Acanthephyra armata A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 | |
Acanthephyra is a genus of shrimp in the family Acanthephyridae,[1] with species that live at depths from 0 to more than 5000 meters deep below the ocean surface.[citation needed][2]