Mictacea

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Mictacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Mictacea
Bowman, Garner, Hessler, Iliffe & Sanders, 1985 [1]
Families

Hirsutiidae
Mictocarididae

Mictacea is the most recently established order of crustaceans, erected for five species of small shrimp-like animals of the deep sea and anchialine caves [2]. Two groups of scientists independently discovered the animals in 1985, and, once they learnt of each others work, agreed to work together on the paper describing the new order [3].

[edit] Species

A total of five species are recognised, split between two families [4]:

Hursutiidae Sanders, Hessler & Garner, 1985
  • Hirsutia bathyalis Saunders, Hessler & Garner, 1985
  • Hirsutia saundersetalia Just & Poore, 1988
  • Thetispelecaris remex Gutu & Iliffe, 1998
  • Thetispelecaris yurigako Ohtsuka, Hanamura & Kase, 2002
Mictocarididae Bowman & Iliffe, 1985

[edit] References

  1. ^ J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF), Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 132 pp. 
  2. ^ J. K. Lowry & M. Yerman. Mictacea. crustacea.net. Australian Museum. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.
  3. ^ Thomas E. Bowman, Susan P. Garner, Robert R. Hessler, Thomas M. Iliffe & Howard L. Sanders (1985). Mictacea, a new order of Crustacea Peracarida. Journal of Crustacean Biology 5 (1): 74–78. doi:10.2307/1548221. 
  4. ^ J. K. Lowry & M. Yerman. Mictacea: checklist. crustacea.net. Australian Museum. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.


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