Speleonectidae Explained

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)

Further reading

• Pancrustacean phylogeny in the light of new phylogenomic data: support for Remipedia as the possible sister group of Hexapoda. 2011. von Reumont . Bjoern M.. Jenner . Ronald A.. Wills . Matthew A.. Dell'Ampio . Emiliano. Pass . Günther. Ebersberger . Ingo. Meyer . Benjamin. Koenemann . Stefan. Iliffe . Thomas M.. Stamatakis . Alexandros. 4. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29. 3. 1031–1045. 10.1093/molbev/msr270. 22049065. free.
• Remipedia, a new class of Crustacea from a marine cave in the Bahamas. 1981. Yager . Jill. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 1. 3. 328–333. 10.2307/1547965. 1547965.