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Remipedia

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taxon links extinct icon [down<--]Crustacea Interpreting the tree
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Containing group: Crustacea

References

Carpenter, J. H. 1999. Behavior and ecology of Speleonectes epilimnius (Remipedia: Speleonectidae) from surface water of an anchialine cave on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Crustaceana 72:979-991.

Fanenbruck, M. and S. Harzsch. 2005. A brain atlas of Godzilliognomus frondosus Yager, 1989 (Remipedia, Godzilliidae) and comparison with the brain of Speleonectes tulumensis Yager, 1987 (Remipedia, Speleonectidae): implications for arthropod relationships. Arthropod Structure & Development 34(3):343-378.

Fanenbruck, M., S. Harzsch, and J. W. Wägele. 2004. The brain of the Remipedia (Crustacea) and an alternative hypothesis on their phylogenetic relationships. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 101 (11):3868-3873.

Schram, F. R., J. Yager, and M. J. Emerson. 1986. Remipedia. Part I. Systematics. San Diego Society of Natural History Memoir 15, 60 pp.

Yager, J. 1981. Remipedia, a new class of crustacea from a marine cave in the Bahamas. Journal of Crustacean Biology 1:328-333.

Yager, J. 1987. Cryptocorynetes haptodiscus, new genus, new species, and Speleonectes benjamini, new species, of remipede crustaceans from anchialine caves in the Bahamas, with remarks on distribution and ecology. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100:302-320.

Yager, J. 1989. Pleomothra apletocheles and Godzilliognomus frondosus, two new genera and species of remipede crustaceans (Godzilliidae) from anchialine caves of the Bahamas. Bulletin of Marine Science 44:1195-1206.

Yager, J. 1991. The remipedia (Crustacea): recent investigations of their biology and phylogeny. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft 84:261-269.

Yager, J. 1994. Speleonectes gironensis, new species (Remipedia: Speleonectidae) from anchialine caves in Cuba, with remarks on biogeography and ecology. Journal of Crustacean Biology 14:752-762.

Yager, J. and J. H. Carpernter. 1999. Speleonectes epilimnius, new species (Remipedia: Speleonectidae) from surface water of an anchialine cave on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Crustaceana 72:965-977.

Yager J. and W. F. Humphreys. 1996. Lasionectes exleyi, sp. nov., the first remipede crustacean recorded from Australia and the Indian Ocean, with a key to the world species. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10:171-187.

Yager, J. and F. R. Schram. 1986. Lasionectes entrichoma, new genus, new species, (Crustacea: Remipedia) from anchialine caves in the Turks and Caicos, Bristish West Indies. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington99:65-70.

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Speleonectes ondinae (Speleonectidae).
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