Mictacea
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| Mictacea | |
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| Mictocaris halope | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Mictacea Bowman, Garner, Hessler, Iliffe & Sanders, 1985 [1] |
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Mictacea is a monotypic order of crustaceans. It was originally erected for three species of small shrimp-like animals of the deep sea and anchialine caves.[2] They were placed in two families, the Mictocarididae and Hirsutiidae,[1][2] but Hirsutiidae is now placed in order Bochusacea,[3] leaving Mictacea with a single species, Mictocaris halope.[4]
Mictaceans have a brood pouch (marsupium) and biramous thoracic limbs, but lack a carapace.[5] They have eyestalks but "no functioning visual elements".[6]