Remasellus

Remasellus parvus
Conservation status

Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Asellidae
Genus: Remasellus
Bowman & Sket, 1985 [1]
Species: R. parvus
Binomial name
Remasellus parvus
(Steeves, 1964) [2]
Synonyms

Conasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964) [2]

Remasellus parvus, the swimming Florida cave isopod, is an isopod endemic to "4 caves in the Ochlockonee and Aucilla-Suwanee drainages of Florida", United States.[3] It is the only species in the genus Remasellus.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Remasellus Bowman and Sket, 1985". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=92783. Retrieved July 19, 2011. 
  2. ^ a b "Remasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=92784. Retrieved July 19, 2011. 
  3. ^ "Remasellus parvus". NatureServe. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Remasellus+parvus. Retrieved July 19, 2011. 
  4. ^ Marilyn Schotte (2010). "Remasellus Bowman & Sket, 1985". In M. Schotte, C. B. Boyko, N. L. Bruce, G. C. B. Poore, S. Taiti & G. D. F. Wilson. World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=249265. Retrieved July 19, 2011.