Erebonectes

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Erebonectes is a genus of crustaceans in the family Epacteriscidae, containing two troglobitic species.[1] E. nasioticus was discovered in Bermuda and described in 1985;[2] it is listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List.[3] E. macrochaetus was found on Middle Caicos and described in 1994.[2]

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Erebonectes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Copepoda
Order: Calanoida
Family: Epacteriscidae
Genus: Erebonectes
Fosshagen, 1985
Species
  • Erebonectes macrochaetus Fosshagen & Iliffe, 1994
  • Erebonectes nesioticus Fosshagen, 1985
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