Homeryon

Homeryon is a genus of blind, deep-sea crustaceans. It is named after the blind Greek poet Homer and the genus Eryon, which contains fossil relatives of the modern Polychelidae. It was separated from the genus Polycheles in 2001, and contains only two species.

Homeryon
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Polychelidae
Genus: Homeryon
Galil, 2000 
Species
  • Homeryon armarium Galil, 2000
  • Homeryon asper (M. J. Rathbun, 1906) 
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