Bathyporeia elegans
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Bathyporeia elegans is a species of amphipod
crustacean
in the genus Bathyporeia
. It is unpigmented, and grows up to 6 millimetre (0.236220472440945 in) long.
Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. The name amphipoda means "different-footed", and refers to the different forms of appendages, unlike isopods, where all the legs are alike. Of the 7,000 species, 5,500 are classified...
crustacean
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
in the genus Bathyporeia
Bathyporeia
Bathyporeia is a genus of amphipods in the family Pontoporeiidae, containing the following species:*Bathyporeia borgi d'Udekem d'Acoz & Vader, 2005*Bathyporeia chevreuxi d'Udekem d'Acoz & Vader, 2005...
. It is unpigmented, and grows up to 6 millimetre (0.236220472440945 in) long.