Bathyporeia elegans

Bathyporeia elegans
Bathyporeia elegans with an egg in its marsupium (brood pouch).
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
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 which occurs in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It is unpigmented, and grows up to 6 millimetres (0.24 in) long.[1]

  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.