Remipedia is a class of blind crustaceans, closely related to hexapods, found in coastal aquifers which contain saline groundwater, with populations identified in almost every ocean basin so far explored, including in Australia, the Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.

2 天之前 · Remipedia represent a comparatively small group of crustaceans, with only 20 living species assigned to three families. The first specimens were discovered three decades ago during a cave diving expedition on Grand Bahamas Island (Yager, 1981).

The extinct group of Remipedia are the Enantiopoda, represented by two fossil forms: Tesnusocaris goldichi, described in 1955 5, and Cryptocaris hootchi 6, described in 1991. Tesnusocaris was found in the lower Pennsylvanian Tesnus Formation of Texas.

Remipedia is an archaic Clustacea class. There are now about 10 known living species. They have not been well studied and all known species are from underwater caves. They live in the burrows of the volcanic islands, such as those of the Hawaiian archipelago.

2011年5月19日 · Remipedia is one of the most recently discovered classes of crustaceans, first described in 1981 from anchialine caves in the Bahamas Archipelago. The class is divided into the order Enantiopoda, represented by two fossil species, and Nectiopoda, which contains all known extant remipedes.

2007年4月12日 · In this paper, we present the results of a phylogenetic analysis comprising all 17 currently known species of the remipede order Nectiopoda. Our investigation is based on 26 morphological characters and includes the fossil remipede Tesnusocaris as an outgroup.

2021年11月3日 · The Remipedia database contains all currently known and recognized species (and higher taxa). Remipedes are crustaceans that live exclusively in coastal anchialine caves. This global marine species list is part of the World Register of Marine Species database, which aims to provide the most authoritative list of names of all marine species ...