Rakiroa

Rakiroa is a monotypic genus of amphipods belonging to the monotypic family Rakiroidae. The only species is Rakiroa rima.^[1] Both genus and species were first described in 1982 by James K. Lowry and Graham David Fenwick.^[2]

Rakiroa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Amphipoda
Suborder:	Senticaudata
Infraorder:	Corophiida
Parvorder:	Caprellidira
Superfamily:	Rakirooidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
Family:	Rakiroidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
Genus:	Rakiroa Lowry & Fenwick, 1982
Species:	R. rima
Binomial name
Rakiroa rima Lowry & Fenwick, 1982

The species is found in New Zealand.^[1]