Cephalocarid

Lightiella incisa

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A tiny primitive crustacean that lives buried in the oxygen poor sediment of seagrass beds, surviving in burrows dug by other animals that stir fresh water through the mud. It belongs to a small ancient group rarely seen by anyone.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Cephalocarida › Brachypoda › Hutchinsoniellidae › Lightiella

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 378167.