ADW: Remipedia: INFORMATION

By Phil Myers

Class: Remipedia

Members of this Class

These primitive crustaceans, which were discovered in submerged caves only in 1980, have a long trunk made up of many segments, each bearing a pair of biramous swimming appendages. Not much is known of their biology.

References:

Hickman, C.P. and L. S. Roberts. 1994. Animal Diversity. Wm. C. Brown, Dubuque, IA.

Brusca, R. C., and G. J. Brusca. Invertebrates. 1990. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

Pearse, V., J. Pearse, M. Buchsbaum, and R. Buchsbaum. 1987. Living Invertebrates. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Palo Alto, Ca.

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Contributors

Phil Myers (author), Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan.

To cite this page: Myers, P. 2001. "Remipedia" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed February 12, 2012 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Remipedia.html

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