Nikoides danae is a species of crustacean in the family Processidae, first described in 1875 by Otton Mikhailovich Paulson.Paulson, O.M (1875). Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea with notes regarding other seas. Part 1 Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). (Izsliedovaniia rakoobraznykh Krasnago Moria, s zamietkami otnositelno rakoobraznych drugikh morei. Chast I.: Podophthalmata i Edriophthalmata (Cumacea.). Kiev, Tipografiia S.V. Kulzhenko,1875. i-xiv, 1-144, pls. 1-22
It is a bottom dwelling species found at depths of 0-5 m, in shallow waters of the Central Pacific, off New Caledonia and French Polynesia.
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