Odontonia bagginsi | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Caridea |
Family: | Palaemonidae |
Genus: | Odontonia |
Species: | O. bagginsi
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Binomial name | |
Odontonia bagginsi de Gier &
Fransen, 2018
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Odontonia bagginsi (more commonly known as Hobbit shrimp) is a tiny species of shrimp with eight hairy limbs. [1] It was discovered in 2009 by Leiden University biology student Werner de Gier and shrimp researcher Dr. Charles Fransen in Ternate, Indonesia. [2] The name came from the novel The Hobbit starring Bilbo Baggins as the fictional “hobbit” characters have hairy feet. [3] [4] [5] Genetic characters of the shrimp were entered in the online database tree of life. [6]
Odontonia bagginsi | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Caridea |
Family: | Palaemonidae |
Genus: | Odontonia |
Species: | O. bagginsi
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Binomial name | |
Odontonia bagginsi de Gier &
Fransen, 2018
|
Odontonia bagginsi (more commonly known as Hobbit shrimp) is a tiny species of shrimp with eight hairy limbs. [1] It was discovered in 2009 by Leiden University biology student Werner de Gier and shrimp researcher Dr. Charles Fransen in Ternate, Indonesia. [2] The name came from the novel The Hobbit starring Bilbo Baggins as the fictional “hobbit” characters have hairy feet. [3] [4] [5] Genetic characters of the shrimp were entered in the online database tree of life. [6]