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Odontonia bagginsi (more commonly known as Hobbit shrimp) is a tiny species of shrimp with eight hairy limbs.[1] It was discovered in 2009 by Leiden University biology student Werner de Gier and shrimp researcher Dr. Charles Fransen in Ternate, Indonesia.[2] The name came from the novel The Hobbit starring Bilbo Baggins as the fictional “hobbit” characters have hairy feet.[3][4][5] Genetic characters of the shrimp were entered in the online database tree of life.[6]

References

  1. ^ "'Hobbit' Shrimp with Hairy Feet Discovered Living Inside Hole in Sea Squirt". Live Science. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  2. ^ de Gier, Werner; Fransen, Charles H.J.M. (2018-06-07). "Odontonia plurellicola sp. n. and Odontonia bagginsi sp. n., two new ascidian-associated shrimp from Ternate and Tidore, Indonesia, with a phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae)". ZooKeys (765): 123–160. doi:10.3897/zookeys.765.25277. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6002420. PMID 29910665.
  3. ^ "In a hole in a tunicate there lived a hobbit: New shrimp species named after Bilbo Baggins". Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  4. ^ Katz, Brigit. "Introducing a Hairy-Footed Shrimp Named After Bilbo Baggins". Smithsonian. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  5. ^ Yenko, Athena (2018-06-13). "New Shrimp Species With Hairy Feet Named After 'The Hobbit' Bilbo Baggins". Tech Times. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  6. ^ "In a hole in a tunicate there lived a hobbit: New shrimp species named after Bilbo Baggins". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
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