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{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Shinkaia crosnieri''
| image = Shinkaia crosnieri.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| subphylum = [[Crustacean|Crustacea]]
| classis = [[Malacostraca]]
| ordo = [[Decapoda]]
| infraordo = [[Anomura]]
| familia = [[Munidopsidae]]
| genus = '''''Shinkaia'''''
| genus_authority = Baba & [[Austin B. Williams|Williams]], 1998
| species = '''''S. crosnieri'''''
| binomial = ''Shinkaia crosnieri''
| binomial_authority = Baba & [[Austin B. Williams|Williams]], 1998
}}
'''''Shinkaia crosnieri''''' is a [[species]] of [[squat lobster]] in a [[Monotypic taxon|monotypic]] genus<ref name="Baba">{{cite journal |journal=[[Zootaxa]] |title=Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura – families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae) |author=Keiji Baba |author2=Enrique Macpherson |author3=Gary C. B. Poore |author4=Shane T. Ahyong |author5=Adriana Bermudez |author6=Patricia Cabezas |author7=Chia-Wei Lin |author8=Martha Nizinski |author9=Celso Rodrigues |author10=Kareen E. Schnabel |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01905p220.pdf |volume=1905 |pages=1–220 |year=2008|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1 |doi-access=free }}</ref> in the family [[Munidopsidae]]. S. crosnieri lives in deep-sea [[hydrothermal vent]] ecosystems, living off of the chemosynthetic activity of certain bacteria living on its [[setae]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Shane T. Ahyong |author2=Keiji Baba |author3=Enrique Macpherson |author4=Gary C. B. Poore |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |title=A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) |journal=[[Zootaxa]] |volume=2676 |pages=57–68 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.4 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02676p068.pdf }}</ref>
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[[Category:Squat lobsters]]
[[Category:Monotypic decapod genera]]
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