''Acanthacaris caeca'' is a species of deep-water lobster. It was originally described under the name ''Phoberus caecus'' by

Alphonse Milne-Edwards Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who ...

. Lacking eyes, ''A. caeca'' is blind.

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''Acanthacaris caeca'' are found in the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...

and in the

Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico () is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southw ...

. They are generally found in burrows between , but they can be found as deep as and as shallow as . They burrow exclusively in muddy environments, and the burrows are deep.

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* True lobsters Crustaceans of Brazil Crustaceans described in 1881 Taxa named by Alphonse Milne-Edwards {{Decapod-stub

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