Galathée yéti
The galathée yéti ( Kiwa hirsuta ) is a Crustacé décapode living in the abyssal depths of the Pacific Ocean southern. It is 15 centimetres long. Its eyes very atrophied and without pigmentation let suppose that it is blind. It is recognizable with the abundant Soie S which cover its legs, at the origin of the second part of its name. These silks seem to shelter Bactérie S.
Living near the hydrothermal sources with 2.500 meters of depth, this shellfish of the great depths is probably carnivorous and necrophagous.
The first specimen was discovered in April 2005 to 1.500 km in the south of the Easter Island, at the time of a mission organized by Robert Vrijenhoek, of the research center of the Aquarium of Monterey Bay, in California, and by Michel Segonzac, biologist of the Ifremer. He is the first representative of a new family, the Kiwaidae (of Kiwa , goddess of shellfish in the Polynesian Mythologie).
External bonds
- Interview of its discoverer Video
- of the TSR (RealPlayer)
- Article of the BBC
Simple: Kiwa hirsuta
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