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Genus: | Shinkaia Baba & Williams, 1998
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Species: | S. crosnieri
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Shinkaia crosnieri Baba & Williams, 1998
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Shinkaia crosnieri is a species of squat lobster in a monotypic genus[1] in the family Munidopsidae. S. crosnieri lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems, living off of the chemosynthetic activity of certain bacteria living on its setae.[2]