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Short description: Genus of crustaceans

Rakiroa
Scientific classification
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Amphipoda
Suborder: Senticaudata
Infraorder: Corophiida
Parvorder: Caprellidira
Superfamily: Rakirooidea
Myers & Lowry, 2003
Family: Rakiroidae
Myers & Lowry, 2003
Genus: Rakiroa
Lowry & Fenwick, 1982
Species:
R. rima
Binomial name
Rakiroa rima
Lowry & Fenwick, 1982

Rakiroa is a monotypic genus of amphipods belonging to the monotypic family Rakiroidae. The only species is Rakiroa rima.[1] Both genus and species were first described in 1982 by James K. Lowry and Graham David Fenwick.[2]

The species is found in New Zealand.[1]

References

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