| Speleonectidae | |
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| Speleonectes tanumekes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | Nectiopoda |
| Family: | Speleonectidae Yager, 1981 |
Speleonectidae is a family of remipedes in the order Nectiopoda. There are at least two genera and about seven described species in Speleonectidae.12
Genera
These two genera and seven species belong to the family Speleonectidae:345
- 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. Three examples of such species include:5
- Speleonectes atlantida (to Morlockia atlantida)
- Speleonectes benjamini (to Angirasu benjamini)
- Speleonectes tulumensis (to Xibalbanus tulumensis)
References
References
- "Speleonectidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- "Speleonectidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- WoRMS. "Speleonectidae Yager, 1981". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- WoRMS. "Lasionectes Yager & Schram, 1986". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- WoRMS. "Speleonectes Yager, 1981". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
Further reading
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.