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Name:
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Cirolanidae → Bathynomus → giganteus → Bathynomus giganteus → A. Milne-Edwards, 1879
Protection status:
Location:
South China Sea / Vietnam
Size of the specimen:
Length: 23,8 cm
Width: 12,1 cm
Height: 7 cm
Weight:
It was a sensation when the zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards fished the first animal of this species from the Gulf of Mexico in 1879, refuting the "Azoic Hypothesis" put forward by Charles Wyville Thomson shortly before that there could be no life in the deep sea . To date, specimens of these giant isopods, which are up to 45 cm long and weigh 1.7 kg, have only been caught very rarely. Well-preserved preparations are correspondingly rare. It is believed that the animals are not rare at the bottom of the deep sea, and they feed on the carcasses and organic remains that sink from the upper water layers.
