Global InformationBathynomus yucatanensis information
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| picture of the top and bottom of a dead bathynomus yucatanensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Family: | Cirolanidae |
| Genus: | Bathynomus |
| Species: | B. yucatanensis
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| Bathynomus yucatanensis Huang, Kawai & Bruce, 2022
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Bathynomus yucatanensis is a species of marine crustacean that was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. It is a member of the order of Isopoda, similar to Bathynomus giganteus.
Bathynomus yucatanensis was jointly published as a new species of Bathynomus by Dr. Ming-Chih Huang, Associate Professor at the National University of Tainan Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, Taiwan (ROC), Dr. Tadashi Kawai, President of the International Association of Astacology, and Nile L. Bruce, Honorary Researcher of invertebrates at the Queensland Museum of Australia.[1]
- ^ Huang, Ming-Chih; Kawai, Tadashi; Bruce, Niel L. (2022-08-09). "A new species of Bathynomus Milne-Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from the southern Gulf of Mexico with a redescription of Bathynomus jamesi Kou, Chen and Li, 2017 from off Pratas Island, Taiwan".