Mictocaris

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Mictocaris halope
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Mictacea
Family: Mictocarididae
Bowman & Iliffe, 1985
Genus: Mictocaris
Bowman & Iliffe, 1985
Species: M. halope
Binomial name
Mictocaris halope
Bowman & Iliffe, 1985

Mictocaris halope is a species of crustacean, which is endemic to Bermuda. It is the only species in the genus Mictocaris [2], and the family Mictocarididae [3].

[edit] References

  1. ^ T. M. Iliffe (1996). Mictocaris halope. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
  2. ^ Damià Jaume, Joan E Cartes & Geoffrey A. Boxshal (2000). Shallow-water and not deep-sea as most plausible origin for cave-dwelling Paramisophria species (Copepoda: Calanoida: Arietellidae), with description of three new species from Mediterranean bathyal hyperbenthos and littoral caves. Contributions to Zoology 68 (4): 205–244. 
  3. ^ J. K. Lowry & M. Yerman. Mictacea: Species. crustacea.net. Australian Museum. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.


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