Speleonectes
Sign in to saveSpeleonectes 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.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassRemipedia
- OrderNectiopoda
- FamilySpeleonectidae
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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.
== Species == === Accepted species === 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
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