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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Polychelidae |
Genus: | Stereomastis |
Species: | S. sculpta
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Binomial name | |
Stereomastis sculpta (
S. I. Smith, 1880)
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Synonyms [3] | |
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Stereomastis sculpta is a species of "strange, blind crustacean" resembling a prawn or a squat lobster. [3] It has a cosmopolitan distribution in deep water, being found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Mediterranean Sea, and across much of the Indo-West Pacific, [4] at depths of 200–4,000 metres (660–13,120 ft). [3]
Stereomastis sculpta | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Polychelidae |
Genus: | Stereomastis |
Species: | S. sculpta
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Binomial name | |
Stereomastis sculpta (
S. I. Smith, 1880)
[2]
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Synonyms [3] | |
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Stereomastis sculpta is a species of "strange, blind crustacean" resembling a prawn or a squat lobster. [3] It has a cosmopolitan distribution in deep water, being found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Mediterranean Sea, and across much of the Indo-West Pacific, [4] at depths of 200–4,000 metres (660–13,120 ft). [3]