Mictacea
Sign in to saveMictacea is a monotypic order of crustaceans. It was originally erected for three species of small shrimp-like animals of the deep sea and anchialine caves. They were placed in two families, the Mictocarididae and Hirsutiidae, but Hirsutiidae is now placed in order Bochusacea, leaving Mictacea with a single species, Mictocaris halope.
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- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderMictacea
混足目（學名：Mictacea）是软甲纲下的一个目，為軟甲綱中最晚定名的。已發現的五個物種都是棲息在深海或濱海石灰岩洞穴中，外形類似蝦的小型生物。有兩組科學家於1985年獨立發現了這個目的生物，並在知道對方的研究後，同意合作撰寫發表此目物種的論文。
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Mictacea is a monotypic order of crustaceans. It was originally erected for three species of small shrimp-like animals of the deep sea and anchialine caves. They were placed in two families, the Mictocarididae and Hirsutiidae, but Hirsutiidae is now placed in order Bochusacea, leaving Mictacea with a single species, Mictocaris halope.
==Description== Mictaceans have a brood pouch (marsupium) and biramous thoracic limbs, but lack a carapace. They have eyestalks but "no functioning visual elements".