PORTAL:CRUSTACEANS DID YOU KNOW 25

... that until the discovery in 1975 of the " living fossil" Neoglyphea inopinata (pictured), glypheoid crustaceans were thought to have been extinct since the Eocene?
... that the goose barnacle Lepas anserifera is found attached to driftwood, flotsam and even whales?
... that the spiny lobster Jasus caveorum lives only on one of the Foundation Seamounts in the southern Pacific Ocean?
... that the Cape Verdean spiny lobster Palinurus charlestoni is named after a French fishing boat?

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