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Giant Plastic Amphipod
Plate 1 of 2. (c) WESTON, J.N.J. et al. 2020. New species of Eurythenes from hadal depths of the Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Zootaxa 4851(1): 151–162., some rights reserved (CC BY) · via iNaturalist

Giant Plastic Amphipod

Eurythenes plasticus

Eurythenes plasticus is a species of amphipod of the genus Eurythenes, first described in 2020. It was named in reference to the PET plastic found in its stomach, after researchers wanted to highlight the impact of plastic pollution.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1044372.