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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Odontonia |
| Species: | O. bagginsi
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| Binomial name | |
| Odontonia bagginsi de Gier & Fransen, 2018
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References
edit- ^ "'Hobbit' Shrimp with Hairy Feet Discovered Living Inside Hole in Sea Squirt". Live Science. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "In a hole in a tunicate there lived a hobbit: New shrimp species named after Bilbo Baggins". Retrieved 2018-07-15.
- ^ Katz, Brigit. "Introducing a Hairy-Footed Shrimp Named After Bilbo Baggins". Smithsonian. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
- ^ Yenko, Athena (2018-06-13). "New Shrimp Species With Hairy Feet Named After 'The Hobbit' Bilbo Baggins". Tech Times. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
- ^ "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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