Tags: Crustacean.
Stygiocaris is a genus of shrimp from caves in the North West Cape and Barrow Island Western Australia.Stygiocaris is highly troglobitic being transparent less than 20 mm (0.8 in) long and with reduced eyes. It was first described by Lipke Holthuis in 1960.The genus contains two species – S. stylifera and S. lancifera. S. stylifera is larger than S. lancifera and also differs in the shape of the rostrum which is lance-shaped in S.
