Heterocarpus
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| Heterocarpus | |
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| Heterocarpus ensifer | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Pandalidae |
| Genus: | Heterocarpus A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 |
| Type species | |
| Heterocarpus ensifer A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 | |
Heterocarpus is a genus of deep-sea shrimp, mainly of tropical areas all over the world.
Heterocarpus is characterised by the highly unequal second pair of pereiopods: one side is long and thin and the other is short but stronger, besides the carapace with one or more longitudinal carinae.[1][2]
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