Bathysquillidae

Bathysquillidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Stomatopoda
Family:	Bathysquillidae Manning, 1967

Bathysquillidae is a family of mantis shrimp. It contains two genera and three species.

Mantis shrimps in this family can be distinguished by the fact that the dorsal surface is rough and covered in tubercles, the exopod (outer branch) of the uropod (fan-like sixth abdominal segment appendage) is fully articulated and the telson (terminal segment) is wider than it is long. The fifth abdominal segment bears no posteriorly directed median spine.

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the family includes the following genera and species:

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