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hughdbrown | 1 year ago

This scientific-academic synopsis gives me only the faintest idea of what kind of animal this might be:

> A new supergiant species of Bathynomus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 from Vietnam is described. Bathynomus vaderi sp. nov. is characterised by its wide, rectangular clypeal region with parallel lateral margins, concave distal margin, and narrowly acute apex; the distally narrowing and posteriorly curved coxa of pereopod 7; and the presence of 11 upwardly curved pleotelson spines.

"Curved coxa of pereopod?" "Curved pleotelson spines?" "Wide, rectangular clypeal region"?

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