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Remipedia
| Remipedia Temporal range: Pennsylvanian to Recent
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| Speleonectes tanumekes | |
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| Class: | Remipedia J. Yager, 1981
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Remipedia is a class of blind crustaceans. They live in coastal aquifers.
So long as the water is salty, these little animals can be found. They are found in almost every ocean basin, including in Australia, the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean. They live in subtropical waters.[1]
The first described remipede was a fossil called Tesnusocaris goldichi (early Pennsylvanian). Since 1979 at least 17 living species have been identified.
Genetic studies suggest that remipedes are the arthropods most closely related to insects.[2]
- ↑ Stefan Koenemann; et al. (2007). "Phylogenetic analysis of Remipedia (Crustacea)". Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. 7 (1): 33–51. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2006.07.001.
- ↑ Where did insects come from? New study establishes relationships among all arthropods
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