Phoratopus
Genus of crustaceans
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Phoratopus remex is a species of isopod crustaceans known from only two specimens, and first described in 1925 by Herbert Matthew Hale (1895–1963).[2] It lives on the continental shelf at Encounter Bay and Fowlers Bay, South Australia.[3][4] Unlike all other Isopods, it is placed in its own family, Phoratopodidae and suborder, Phoratopidea.[5][6]
| Phoratopus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Suborder: | Phoratopidea Brandt & Poore, 2003 |
| Family: | Phoratopodidae Hale, 1925 |
| Genus: | Phoratopus Hale, 1925 |
| Species: | P. remex |
| Binomial name | |
| Phoratopus remex Hale, 1925 [1] | |
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