Speleonectes emersoni, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from the Dominican Republic Academic Article

abstract

• A new species of Remipedia (Crustacea), Speleonectes emersoni, is described from two anchialine caves in the Dominican Republic. It represents the first record of remipedes for the island of Hispaniola. Speleonectes emersoni is a comparatively small-sized remipede. It can be distinguished from other species in the genus Speleonectes by a combination of features that include: 1) a relatively large antennal exopod, 2) frontal filaments with subapically inserted medial processes extending over the tip of the main filament, 3) an arc-shaped horseshoe-type claw with 710 small denticles, and 4) an anal segment that is longer than wide with caudal rami nearly as long as the anal segment.

authors

• Iliffe, Thomas

published proceedings

• ZOOTAXA

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Lorentzen, D., Koenemann, S., & Iliffe, T. M.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Lorentzen, Doerte||Koenemann, Stefan||Iliffe, Thomas M

publication date

• August 2007

publisher

• Magnolia Press  Publisher

published in

• ZOOTAXA  Journal

keywords

• Anchialine Caves
• Biogeography
• Crustacea
• Dominican Republic
• Remipedia
• Speleonectidae

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.11646/zootaxa.1543.1.3

start page

• 61

end page

• 68

volume

• 1543

issue

• 1543

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1543.1.3