Adaptations to Hydrothermal Vent Life in Kiwa tyleri, a New Species of Yeti Crab from the East Scotia Ridge, Antarctica

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Thatje, Sven, Marsh, Leigh, Roterman, Christopher Nicolai, Mavrogordato, Mark N., Linse, Katrin
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2015
• Subjects: Research Article; East Scotia Ridge; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480985/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26107940; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127621

Hydrothermal vents in the Southern Ocean are the physiologically most isolated chemosynthetic environments known. Here, we describe Kiwa tyleri sp. nov., the first species of yeti crab known from the Southern Ocean. Kiwa tyleri belongs to the family Kiwaidae and is the visually dominant macrofauna o...