Tags: Crustacean.

Juxtastenopus spinulatus is a species of stenopodidean shrimp. It lives in the Red Sea and across the Indian Ocean as far east as the Philippines. It is red or pink up to 28 mm (1.1 in) long with enlarged third pereiopods. Originally described in the genus Engystenopus it is now placed in the monotypic genus Juxtastenopus in the family Stenopodidae.

binomial authority
Lipke Holthuis
class
Malacostraca
family
Stenopodidea
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Stenopodidea
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
Engystenopus spinulatus (Holthuis 1946)

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