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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Classis: Remipedia
Ordo: Nectiopoda

Familia: Speleonectidae
Genera (4): Cryptocorynetes – Kaloketos – Lasionectes – Speleonectes
Name

Speleonectidae

Synonyms

Morlockiidae Valdecasas, 1985. Type genus: Morlockia Valdecasas, 1985 [=Speleonectes Yager, 1981]

References

Valdecasas 1985: Morlockiidae new family of Remipedia (Crustacea) from Lanzarote (Canary Islands). Eos-Revista Espanola de Entomologia, 60: 329–333.

Speleonectidae is a family of remipedes in the order Nectiopoda. There are at least two genera and about seven described species in Speleonectidae.[1][2]
Genera

These two genera belong to the family Speleonectidae:

Lasionectes Yager & Schram, 1986
Speleonectes Yager, 1981

References

"Speleonectidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2020-01-25.

"Speleonectidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.

Further reading

von Reumont, Bjoern M.; Jenner, Ronald A.; Wills, Matthew A.; Dell'Ampio, Emiliano; et al. (2011). "Pancrustacean phylogeny in the light of new phylogenomic data: support for Remipedia as the possible sister group of Hexapoda". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29 (3): 1031–1045. doi:10.1093/molbev/msr270. PMID 22049065.
Yager, Jill (1981). "Remipedia, a new class of Crustacea from a marine cave in the Bahamas". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 1 (3): 328–333. doi:10.2307/1547965. JSTOR 1547965.

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