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Speleonectidae
Speleonectes tanumekes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Remipedia
Order:	Nectiopoda
Family:	Speleonectidae

Speleonectidae is a family of remipedes in the order Nectiopoda. There are at least two genera and about seven described species in Speleonectidae.

Genera

These two genera and seven species belong to the family Speleonectidae:

• 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:

• Speleonectes atlantida (to Morlockia atlantida)
• Speleonectes benjamini (to Angirasu benjamini)
• Speleonectes tulumensis (to Xibalbanus tulumensis)

References

1. "Speleonectidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
2. "Speleonectidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
3. WoRMS. "Speleonectidae Yager, 1981". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
4. WoRMS. "Lasionectes Yager & Schram, 1986". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
5. ^ WoRMS. "Speleonectes Yager, 1981". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 February 2020.

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.

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