Speleonectes

Speleonectes
Speleonectes tanumekes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Remipedia
Order: Nectiopoda
Family: Speleonectidae
Genus: Speleonectes
Yager, 1981
Type species
Speleonectes lucayensis
Yager, 1981
Species

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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.

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