Family SPELEONECTIDAE Yager, 1981
- Speleonectidae Yager, J. 1981. Remipedia, a New Class of Crustacea from a Marine Cave in the Bahamas. Journal of Crustacean Biology 1: 328-333 [328].
Introduction
The family contains 18 species, plus others as yet undescribed (Koeneman et al. 2007, Neiber et al. 2011), most from Central America and the Caribbean.
Diagnosis
Head shield subrectangular; ventral ramus of antennules with many segments; antennal segments generally with single rows of setae along margins, except for double row along distal edge of 3rd third endopodal segment; mandibles markedly asymmetrical; maxillule 2nd segment with broad ventral pad-like setose endite; maxillule 3rd segment a broad long subtriangular endite; maxillae with 4 segments beyond elbow of limb; maxilliped basal endite broad and pad-like, with 5 segments beyond elbow of limb; posterior trunk segments generally without sternal plates but with differentiated sternal bars.
Diagnosis References
Schram, F.R., Yager, J. & Emerson, M.J. 1986. Remipedia. Part I. Systematics. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 15: 1-60 [6]
General References
Koenemann, S., Schram, F.R., Hönemann, M. & Iliffe, T.M. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of Remipedia (Crustacea). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 7: 33–51
Neiber, M.T., Hartke, T. R., Stemme, T., Bergmann, A., Rust, J., Iliffe, T.M. & Koenemann, S. 2011. Global biodiversity and phylogenetic evaluation of Remipedia (Crustacea). PloS One (Public Library of Science) 6: e19627 10.1371/journal.pone.0019627