Speleonectes
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| Speleonectes | |
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| Speleonectes tanumekes | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | Nectiopoda |
| Family: | Speleonectidae |
| Genus: | Speleonectes Yager, 1981 |
| Type species | |
| Speleonectes lucayensis[1] Yager, 1981 | |
| Species[2] | |
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Speleonectes is a genus of remipedes in the family Speleonectidae. It was the first genus of remipedes to be described, with the type species, Speleonectes lucayensis, having been discovered by Jill Yager in the Lucayan Caverns on Grand Bahama while cave diving in 1979.[3]
