Speleonectes

Speleonectes
Speleonectes tanumekes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Remipedia
Order: Nectiopoda
Family: Speleonectidae
Genus: Speleonectes
Yager, 1981
Type species
Speleonectes lucayensis[2]
Yager, 1981
Species[1]

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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

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

  1. ^ Koenemann S, Hoenemann M, Stemme T, eds. (2026). "Speleonectes Yager, 1981". World Remipedia Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Speleonectes Yager 1981 - Plazi TreatmentBank". Plazi TreatmentBank. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  3. ^ 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.
  • Data related to Speleonectes at Wikispecies
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