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Thysanoessa is a genus of krill

Krill

Krill is the common name given to the order Euphausiacea of shrimp-like marine crustaceans. Also known as euphausiids, these small invertebrates are found in all oceans of the world...

(small shrimp

Shrimp

Shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important...

-like invertebrate

Invertebrate

An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. The group includes 97% of all animal species – all animals except those in the chordate subphylum Vertebrata .Invertebrates form a paraphyletic group...

animals living in the oceans), containing the following species:

Thysanoessa gregaria G. O. Sars, 1885
Thysanoessa inermis (Krøyer
Henrik Nikolaj Krøyer
Henrik Nikolai Krøyer was a Danish zoologist.Born in Copenhagen, he was a brother of the composer Hans Ernst Krøyer. He started studying medicine at the University of Copenhagen in 1817, which he later changed to history and philology...

, 1846)
Thysanoessa inspinata Nemoto, 1963
Thysanoessa longicaudata (Krøyer, 1846)
Thysanoessa longipes Brandt, 1851
Thysanoessa macrura G. O. Sars, 1885
Thysanoessa parva Hansen
Hans Jacob Hansen
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, 1905
Thysanoessa raschii
Thysanoessa raschii
Thysanoessa raschii, sometimes known as Arctic krill, is one of the most common euphausiid species of the subarctic and Arctic seas. They may reach long, and are sexually mature above ....

(M. Sars
Michael Sars
Michael Sars was a Norwegian theologian and biologist.-Biography:Sars was born in Bergen, Norway. He studied natural history and theology at Royal Frederick University from 1823 and completed a cand.theol. degree in 1828. For several years he taught at a number of different schools, firstly in...

, 1864)
Thysanoessa spinifera Holmes, 1900
Thysanoessa vicina Hansen, 1911

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