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Bodotria scorpioides

Bodotria scorpioides
Bodotria scorpioides (male).jpg
Male Bodotria scorpioides
Bodotria scorpioides (female).jpg
Female Bodotria scorpioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Cumacea
Family: Bodotriidae
Genus: Bodotria
Species: B. scorpioides
Binomial name
Bodotria scorpioides
(Montagu, 1804)

Bodotria scorpioides is a species of crustacean belonging to the order Cumacea and the genus Bodotria. They are found in the East Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.B. scorpioides does not possess a free telson. The first thoracic somite is too short to be seen from above, the second is longer. Both males and females have exopods (outer branches) on the first pereopods only.


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