''Shinkaia crosnieri'' is a
species of
squat lobster in a
monotypic genus
in the family
Munidopsidae
Munidopsidae is a family of crustaceans belonging to the order Decapoda
The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, cra ...
. S. crosnieri lives in deep-sea
hydrothermal vent
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hotspot ...
ecosystems, living off of the chemosynthetic activity of certain bacteria living on its
setae.
References
Squat lobsters
Monotypic arthropod genera
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