ADW: Remipedia: Information

2009/11/22 04:44:24.194 US/Eastern

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.

Contributors

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

2009/11/22 04:44:24.313 US/Eastern

To cite this page: Myers, P. 2001. "Remipedia" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 24, 2009 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Remipedia.html.

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Class Remipedia

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