Godzillognomus schrami
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Godzilliognomus schrami is a species of Remipedia
Remipedia
Remipedia is a class of blind crustaceans found in coastal aquifers which contain saline groundwater, with populations identified in almost every ocean basin so far explored, including in Australia, the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean...

 discovered in 2007, representing one of five extant species of the family Godzilliidae. It generally reaches about 7 millimetre (0.275590551181102 in) in length and inhabits a single anchialine cave on Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama is one of the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, and the closest major island to the United States, lying off the state of Florida. Grand Bahama is the fifth largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays...

 Island. The specific epithet commemorates Frederick Schram
Frederick Schram
Frederick Robert Schram is an American palaeontologist and carcinologist. He received his B.S. in biology from Loyola University Chicago in 1965, and a Ph.D...

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