Tags: Crustacean.
Speleonectes atlantida is a species of eyeless crustacean in the order Nectiopoda. It was discovered in August 2009 in the Tunnel de la Atlantida the world’s longest submarine lava tube on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands off the west coast of North Africa. The species is equipped with powerful prehensile limbs and venomous fangs that function as hypodermic needles.