Biology:Speleonectidae

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Short description: Family of crustaceans

Speleonectidae
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Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Remipedia
Order: Nectiopoda
Family: Speleonectidae

Speleonectidae is a family of remipedes in the order Nectiopoda. There are at least two genera and about seven described species in Speleonectidae.[1][2]

Genera

These two genera and seven species belong to the family Speleonectidae:[3][4][5]

  • Lasionectes Yager & Schram, 1986
    • Lasionectes entrichoma Yager & Schram, 1986
  • Speleonectes Yager, 1981
    • Speleonectes epilimnius Yager & Carpenter, 1999
    • Speleonectes gironensis Yager, 1994
    • Speleonectes kakuki Daenekas, Iliffe, Yager & Koenemann, 2009
    • Speleonectes lucayensis Yager, 1981
    • Speleonectes minnsi Koenemann, Iliffe & van der Ham, 2003
    • Speleonectes tanumekes Koenemann, Iliffe & van der Ham, 2003

Several former Speleonectes species have recently been transferred to other genera:[5]

References

Further reading

  • von Reumont, Bjoern M.; Jenner, Ronald A.; Wills, Matthew A.; Dell'Ampio, Emiliano et al. (2011). "Pancrustacean phylogeny in the light of new phylogenomic data: support for Remipedia as the possible sister group of Hexapoda". Molecular Biology and Evolution 29 (3): 1031–1045. doi:10.1093/molbev/msr270. PMID 22049065. 
  • Yager, Jill (1981). "Remipedia, a new class of Crustacea from a marine cave in the Bahamas". Journal of Crustacean Biology 1 (3): 328–333. doi:10.2307/1547965. 

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