Kumonga exleyi
Species of crustacean
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Kumonga exleyi, also known as the Cape Range remipede,[5] is a species of remipede in the monospecific genus Kumonga and the monotypic family Kumongidae.[4][3][2] It was described in 1996 from specimens collected during the years of 1993 to 1995,[1] and was originally assigned to the genus Lasionectes, but was moved to its own genus, Kumonga, in 2013.[4][6][7] It is listed as a vulnerable species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and as a critically endangered species under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (WA).[1]
| Cape Range remipede | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | Nectiopoda |
| Family: | Kumongidae Hoenemann et al., 2013[2] |
| Genus: | Kumonga Hoenemann et al., 2013[3] |
| Species: | K. exleyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Kumonga exleyi | |
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It is named after Kumonga, a kaiju from the 1967 kaiju film Son of Godzilla[7] and the cave diver Sheck Exley.
