雪人蟹
Its fuzzy, winter-white coat might look at home in the Himalaya, but the yeti crab was discovered skittering around hydrothermal vents about a mile and a half under the South Pacific off Easter Island in March 2005.The 6-inch blind crustacean—officially Kiwa hirsuta—is among the more than 6,000 new species discovered during the Census of Marine Life.
看着它毛茸茸的冬白色外套,人们可能认为雪人蟹的故乡就是喜马拉雅山,但实际上,这种甲壳类动物是2005年3月在复活岛沿岸南太平洋海下大约2.4千米的热液喷口周围发现的。这只盲蟹长15厘米,正式名称为“基瓦多毛怪”,是海洋生物普查发现的6000多种新物种之一。