Rimicaris kairei

Rimicaris kairei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Alvinocarididae
Genus: Rimicaris
Species:
R. kairei
Binomial name
Rimicaris kairei
Watabe & Hashimoto, 2002

Rimicaris kairei is a species of hydrothermal vent shrimp originally discovered in August 2000 with the ROV Kaiko on the R/V Kairei[1]. They are named for the R/V Kairei and the Kairei hydrothermal vent field on which they were first discovered.[2] They get energy from chemosynthetic symbiotic bacteria that live in their gut.[3] They reproduce sexually and have a larval stage in which they consume photosynthetic material.[4] Rimicaris kairei lives on four different hydrothermal vent sites on the Central Indian Ridge in the Indian Ocean.[2] They are the most populous invertebrate on these vents.[5] The species is differentiated from other species of Rimicaris Shrimp by a lack of setae, longer flagellar antennae, and less robust pereopods.[2]

Rimicaris kairei
A Rimicaris kairei specimen
  1. ^ Hashimoto, Jun; Ohta, Suguru; Gamo, Toshitaka; Chiba, Hitoshi; Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki; Tsuchida, Shinji; Okudaira, Takamoto; Watabe, Hajime; Yamanaka, Toshiro; Kitazawa, Mitsuko (July 2001). "First Hydrothermal Vent Communities from the Indian Ocean Discovered". Zoological Science. 18 (5): 717–721. doi:10.2108/zsj.18.717. ISSN 0289-0003.
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Methou, Pierre; Hikosaka, Masanari; Chen, Chong; Watanabe, Hiromi K.; Miyamoto, Norio; Makita, Hiroko; Takahashi, Yoshio; Jenkins, Robert G. (2022-04-26). Johnson, Karyn N. (ed.). "Symbiont Community Composition in Rimicaris kairei Shrimps from Indian Ocean Vents with Notes on Mineralogy". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88 (8): e0018522. Bibcode:2022ApEnM..88E.185M. doi:10.1128/aem.00185-22. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 9040608. PMID 35404070.
  4. ^ Beedessee, Girish; Watanabe, Hiromi; Ogura, Tomomi; Nemoto, Suguru; Yahagi, Takuya; Nakagawa, Satoshi; Nakamura, Kentaro; Takai, Ken; Koonjul, Meera; Marie, Daniel E. P. (2013-12-16). Valentine, John F. (ed.). "High Connectivity of Animal Populations in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fields in the Central Indian Ridge Relevant to Its Geological Setting". PLOS ONE. 8 (12): e81570. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...881570B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081570. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3864839. PMID 24358117.
  5. ^ Van Dover, C. (2002-10-01). "Trophic relationships among invertebrates at the Kairei hydrothermal vent field (Central Indian Ridge)". Marine Biology. 141 (4): 761–772. Bibcode:2002MarBi.141..761V. doi:10.1007/s00227-002-0865-y. ISSN 1432-1793.