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Lasionectes

Lasionectes is a monospecific genus of remipedes in the family Speleonectidae. It is one of two genera in the family, the other being Speleonectes, which was the first genus of remipedes to be described.

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Lasionectes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Remipedia
Order: Nectiopoda
Family: Speleonectidae
Genus: Lasionectes
Yager & Schram, 1986
Species:
L. entrichoma
Binomial name
Lasionectes entrichoma
Yager & Schram, 1986

Lasionectes is a monospecific genus of remipedes in the family Speleonectidae.1 It is one of two genera in the family, the other being Speleonectes, which was the first genus of remipedes to be described.2

The type and only accepted species is Lasionectes entrichoma.1 A second species, Lasionectes exleyi, was previously assigned to this genus, but has since been moved to its own genus, Kumonga.1

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  1. Koenemann S, Hoenemann M, Stemme T, eds. (2026). "Lasionectes Yager & Schram, 1986". World Remipedia Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  2. Jill Yager (August 1981). "Remipedia, a new class of Crustacea from a marine cave in the Bahamas". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 1 (3): 328–333. Bibcode:1981JCBio...1..328Y. doi:10.2307/1547965. eISSN 1937-240X. ISSN 0278-0372. JSTOR 1547965. S2CID 201984071.
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