Tags: Crustacean.

Polycheles typhlops is a species of blind deep water decapod crustacean with a cosmopolitan distribution. It is one of the dominant and most characteristic crustaceans in deep-sea communities of the Mediterranean Sea.

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binomial authority
Camill Heller
class
Malacostraca
conservation status
LC
conservation status system
iucn3.1
family
Polychelidae
genus
Polycheles
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*, *Pentacheles agassizii (A. Milne-Edwards 1880), *Pentacheles hextii (Alcock 1894), *Polycheles doderleini (Riggio 1885)

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