Shinkaia
Genus of crustaceans
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Shinkaia crosnieri is a species of squat lobster in a monotypic genus[1] in the family Munidopsidae. S. crosnieri lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems, living off of the chemosynthetic activity of certain bacteria living on its setae.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Munidopsidae |
| Genus: | Shinkaia Baba & Williams, 1998 |
| Species: | S. crosnieri |
| Binomial name | |
| Shinkaia crosnieri Baba & Williams, 1998 | |
