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Remasellus

Remasellus parvus, the swimming Florida cave isopod, is an isopod endemic to 4 caves in the Ochlockonee and Aucilla-Suwanee drainages of Florida, United States. It is the only species in the genus Remasellus.

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Remasellus
Critically Imperiled
Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)1
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Asellidae
Genus: Remasellus
Bowman & Sket, 1985 3
Species:
R. parvus
Binomial name
Remasellus parvus
(Steeves, 1964) 2
Synonyms

Conasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964) 2

Remasellus parvus, the swimming Florida cave isopod, is an isopod endemic to 4 caves in the Ochlockonee and Aucilla-Suwanee drainages of Florida, United States.1 It is the only species in the genus Remasellus.4

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References

  1. "Remasellus parvus". NatureServe. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
  2. "Remasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
  3. "Remasellus Bowman and Sket, 1985". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
  4. Marilyn Schotte (2010). M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce; G. C. B. Poore; S. Taiti; G. D. F. Wilson (eds.). "Remasellus Bowman & Sket, 1985". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 19, 2011.