''Rakiroa'' is a
monotypic genus of
amphipod
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...
s belonging to the monotypic family Rakiroidae. The only species is ''Rakiroa rima''.
Both genus and species were first described in 1982 by
James K. Lowry and Graham David Fenwick.
The species is found in New Zealand.
References
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Corophiidea
Monotypic crustacean genera
Taxa named by James K. Lowry