Tags: Crustacean.

Caprella bathytatos is a species of skeleton shrimp in the genus Caprella. It was described in 1998 by Joel W. Martin and Gary Pettit who discovered it living on the mouthparts of the crab Macroregonia macrochira near hydrothermal vents in British Columbia.

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class
Malacostraca
family
Caprellidae
genus
Caprella
kingdom
Animal
order
Amphipoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean

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