Morlockia

Morlockia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Remipedia
Order:	Nectiopoda
Family:	Morlockiidae
Genus:	Morlockia; García-Valdecasas, 1985

Morlockia is a genus of eyeless crustaceans in the family Morlockiidae. The genus contains 4 described species.¹

Etymology

The names Morlockia and Morlockiidae come from the Morlocks, a fictional species made by H. G. Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine, because of the genera's adaptation to low-light conditions, like the Morlocks.²

Species

Morlockia contains 4 accepted species:¹

Morlockia atlantida (Koenemann et al., 2009)
Morlockia emersoni (Lorentzen, Koenemann, Iliffe, 2007)
Morlockia ondinae (García-Valdecasas, 1985)
Morlockia williamsi (Hartke, Koenemann & Yager, 2011)

References

"WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Morlockia García-Valdecasas, 1985". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
Valdecasas, Antonio G. (25 January 1985). "Morlockiidae new family of Remipedia (Crustacea) from Lanzarote (Canary Islands)" (PDF). Spanish National Research Council. p. 4. hdl:10261/170608. Retrieved 10 September 2023.

[worms-1] "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Morlockia García-Valdecasas, 1985". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-09-11.

[2] Valdecasas, Antonio G. (25 January 1985). "Morlockiidae new family of Remipedia (Crustacea) from Lanzarote (Canary Islands)" (PDF). Spanish National Research Council. p. 4. hdl:10261/170608. Retrieved 10 September 2023.

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