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Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Malacostraca Order Euphausiacea Family Euphausiidae Genus Euphausia Species: superba Scientific name: Euphausia superba
The name of the species you want is Euphausia superba.
You may be thinking of Antarctic Krill, properly named Euphausia superba.
The scientiffic name for krill is Meganyctiphanes Norvegica (look it up at wikipedia, the free encyclopedia if you don't believe me).
You may be thinking of Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba,which forms the base of the Antarctic food chain.
There is no food chain on Antarctica because it's too cold to support animal life.In the Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent, the base of the liquid food chain is krill, Euphausia superba.
Antarctic krill -- Euphausia superba -- feed on minute phytoplankton. This uses the production energy that the phytoplankton derived from the sun in order to sustain the krill life cycle in the open ocean.These details from the kill Wikipedia page.
Euphausia crystallorophias was created in 1906.
Euphausia pacifica was created in 1911.
You may be thinking of Antarctic Krill, properly Euphausia superba. This animal is the base of the relatively short, protein-population food chain in the Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent.
There is no food grown on the Antarctic continent, but the Southern Ocean is the most productive ocean on earth in terms of the protein that lives there. The base of this food chain is Antarctic Krill -- Euphausia superba -- and it represents the main food type in that ocean: protein.
Checker Superba was created in 1961.