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Rimicaris kairei
Rimicaris kairei is a species of hydrothermal vent shrimp originally discovered in August 2000 by the operators of the ROV Kaiko from the R/V Kairei, being named for both the ship and the Kairei vent field on which they were first discovered. The shrimp have chemosynthetic symbiotic bacteria that live in their guts which gives them energy. Polymorphism is observed, which is based on different concentrations of iron minerals in the environment, which are deposited under...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1135616.