New Specie Of Lobster Found In South Africa, Named After Nelson Mandela.

A new specie of a sea creature (crustacean) which is related to hermit crabs has been named in honour of Nelson Mandela. It's Latin name Munidopsis mandelai was in honour of the south African revolutionary.
It was discovered off the coast of South Africa in 2011, in a relatively unexplored area of South Indian Ocean Bridge. The lobster was found living 750 metres below the ocean's surface and is very small, measuring only seven millimetres.

According to DailyMail, The spectacular and new specie was found by a PhD student, Diva Amon who is based at the National History Museum, London and was taking a part in s study about submerged wood and whale bone.

"We discovered the new species unexpectedly during a larger experiment investigating submerged wood and bones in the Southwest Indian Ocean seamount, an unexplored area. The finding provides us with another example of how deep sea research continues to reveal the mysteries of underwater ecosystems" said Ms Amon. 

It was sent to Dr Paul Clark, an invertebrates researcher at the museum and Dr Enrique Macpherson, of Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes, Spain, to be identified.

‘This species was collected in great depths in an isolated area just off of South Africa and identified in summer 2013, proving that deep sea research continues to produce new scientific discoveries. We thought it would be a fitting tribute to name this find in honour of Mr Mandela, a remarkable man.’, said Dr Clarke.