Bathyporeia elegans

Bathyporeia elegans
Bathyporeia elegans with an egg in its marsupium (brood pouch).
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Suborder: Gammaridea
Family: Pontoporeiidae
Genus: Bathyporeia
Species: B. elegans
Binomial name
Bathyporeia elegans
Watkin, 1938

Bathyporeia elegans is a species of amphipod crustacean in the genus Bathyporeia. It is unpigmented, and grows up to 6 millimetres (0.24 in) long.[1]

References

  1. Mark Costello & Denise Bellan-Santini (2011). J. Lowry, ed. "Bathyporeia elegans Watkin, 1938". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 16, 2011.

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