Paleomattea

Paleomattea

Paleomattea deliciosa
Scale 5 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 1
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Animalia, Anthropoda, Malacostraca

EXTINCT | 1 POINT

The name of this shellfish means “ancient delicacy” and is derived from the Latin word deliciosa which means delicious.

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Paleomattea is an extinct genus of prawn, containing the single species Paleomattea deliciosa.[1] The species is only known from the stomach contents of the fish Rhacolepis, which is referred to by the specific epithet deliciosa (“delicious”), and in the generic name, where mattea means “delicacy“.[2] (From Wikipedia, February 2015) read more
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Paleomattea is an extinct genus of prawn, containing the single species Paleomattea deliciosa.[1] The species is only known from the stomach contents of the fish Rhacolepis, which is referred to by the specific epithet deliciosa (“delicious”), and in the generic name, where mattea means “delicacy“.[2]

(From Wikipedia, February 2015)