Common name of Tuleariocaris holthuisi
 
Common Name Holthuis urchin shrimp
Language English
Type Vernacular
Official Trade Name No
Rank 3 - (Other common name)
Country United States (contiguous states)
Locality
Ref. Bisby, F.A., M.A. Ruggiero, K.L. Wilson, M. Cachuela-Palacio, S.W. Kimani, Y.R. Roskov, A. Soulier-Perkins and J. van Hertum, 2005
Life Stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core morphology
1st Modifier non-fish animal
2nd Modifier person (eponym)
Remarks 'shrimp' from Old Norse 'skorpna', i.e., 'to shrivel up'; 'Holthuis' from Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis (1921-2008), Dutch carcinologist appointed as assistant curator of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden in 1941, and who gave his name to 58 species of crustaceans (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipke_Holthuis for more details).
 
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