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Cardus
Cardus crucifer is a species of blind deep-water decapod crustacean from the Atlantic Ocean, the only species in the genus Cardus. It differs from other members of the family Polychelidae in having only four pairs of claws, instead of five, in both sexes. The name Cardus refers to the thistle Carduus, in reference to the spiny thistle-like carapace. It is found in the eastern Atlantic from Portugal to Morocco and around the Azores and Canary Islands,...
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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 87232.