| Speleonectes | |
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| Speleonectes tanumekes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | Nectiopoda |
| Family: | Speleonectidae |
| Genus: | Speleonectes Yager, 1981 |
| Type species | |
| Speleonectes lucayensis1 Yager, 1981
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Speleonectes is a genus of remipedes in the family Speleonectidae. It was the first genus of remipedes to be described, with the type species, Speleonectes lucayensis, having been discovered by Jill Yager in the Lucayan Caverns on Grand Bahama while cave diving in 1979.3
Species
Accepted species
- 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
Unaccepted species
- Speleonectes atlantida Koenemann, Bloechl, Martínez, Iliffe, Hoenemann & Oromí, 2009
- Speleonectes benjamini Yager, 1987
- Speleonectes cokei Yager, 2013
- Speleonectes emersoni Lorentzen, Koenemann & Iliffe, 2007
- Speleonectes fuchscockburni Neiber, Hansen, Iliffe, Gonzalez & Koenemann, 2012
- Speleonectes ondinae (García-Valdecasas, 1985)
- Speleonectes parabenjamini Koenemann, Iliffe & van der Ham, 2003
- Speleonectes tulumensis Yager, 1987
- Speleonectes williamsi Hartke, Koenemann & Yager, 2011
References
References
- "Speleonectes Yager 1981 - Plazi TreatmentBank". Plazi TreatmentBank. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
- Koenemann S, Hoenemann M, Stemme T, eds. (2026). "Speleonectes Yager, 1981". World Remipedia Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
- 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.