Caprella bathytatos
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| Caprella bathytatos | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Family: | Caprellidae |
| Genus: | Caprella |
| Species: | C. bathytatos |
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| Caprella bathytatos Martin & Pettit, 1998 | |
Caprella bathytatos is a species of skeleton shrimp in the genus Caprella.[1] 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.[2]
