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]

Speleonectidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Remipedia
Order: Nectiopoda
Family: Speleonectidae

Genera

These two genera belong to the family Speleonectidae:

  • Lasionectes Yager & Schram, 1986
  • Speleonectes Yager, 1981

References

  1. "Speleonectidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  2. "Speleonectidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.

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. JSTOR 1547965.


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