Cyanagraea
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Cyanagraea praedator is a species of crab that lives on hydrothermal vents, and the only species in the genus Cyanagraea.
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It sits within the topics Animals living on hydrothermal vents, Crabs and Crustaceans of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyBythograeidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- Family
- Bythograeidae
- Collections
- USNM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- North East Pacific Rise
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Cyanagraea praedator is a species of crab that lives on hydrothermal vents, and the only species in the genus Cyanagraea.
It is found at depths of on the East Pacific Rise, where it lives "in the upper part of black smoker chimneys". Its haemocyanin has a strong affinity for oxygen, and displays a significant Bohr effect, which is unaffected by lactic acid.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cyanagraea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.