Xibalbanus tulumensisi

Remipedes are blind, cave-dwelling crustaceans of flooded caves along the coasts of Mexico and Central America, places reached only by cave divers. This species, from the Yucatán, gave the group its claim to fame: a 2013 study showed it was the first crustacean known to use venom to capture and…

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