Kiwa hirsuta

A new "hairy white lobster" creature has been discovered that is so unique a new genus and family have been accorded.

An American led research team from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute apparently discovered the new creature (April 2005).

In April 2005, at the time of a mission in the south of the Easter Island, a researcher of the Ifremer center of Brest returned with a strange white shellfish décapode of about fifteen centimetres length, collected close to the hydrothermal sources of the Pacifique dorsal - the Antarctic. He was distinguished inter alia by the absence from eyes and an astonishing pilosity ever observed at the others décapodes.
This discovery is exceptional for the hydrothermal scientific community, because it is finally about a new baptized family Kiwaidae (of Kiwa, goddess of shellfish in Polynesian mythology). The last family described in this group goes up at the end of the 19th century. The description of this specimen, single for the moment, comes to appear in the Zoosystema review of the Natural history museum of Paris (MNHN), where it is deposited.

Above snippet translated from Ifremer.

Wonder how long it will take before some jackass wonders what kind of sauce and wine might go best? ;)