Bathyporeia elegans | |
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Bathyporeia elegans with an egg in its marsupium (brood pouch). | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Amphipoda |
Suborder: | Gammaridea |
Family: | Pontoporeiidae |
Genus: | Bathyporeia |
Species: | B. elegans |
Binomial name | |
Bathyporeia elegans Watkin, 1938 |
Bathyporeia elegans is a species of amphipod crustacean in the genus Bathyporeia. It is unpigmented, and grows up to 6 millimetres (0.24 in) long.