Lebbeus clarehannah
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| Lebbeus clarehannah | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Thoridae |
| Genus: | Lebbeus |
| Species: | L. clarehannah
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| Binomial name | |
| Lebbeus clarehannah McCallum & Poore, 2010 [1]
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Lebbeus clarehannah is a species of shrimp discovered in 2005 off the southwest coast of Western Australia. Former NBA player Luc Longley won the rights to name the shrimp in an eBay auction. He named the shrimp after his daughter, Clare Hanna Longley, as a birthday present to her.[2][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Anna W. McCallum & Gary C. B. Poore (2010). "Two crested and colourful new species of Lebbeus (Crustacea: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2372: 126–137. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.13.
- ^ Bob Grant (2009). "Shrimpus eBayicus". The Scientist. 23 (12): 19.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lebbeus clarehannah McCallum & Poore, 2010". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "Two crested and colourful new species of Lebbeus (Crustacea: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia" (PDF). Zootaxa.
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