Mictacea
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Mictocaris halope | |
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Mictacea is an monotypical order of crustaceans, originally erected for four species of small shrimp-like animals of the deep sea and anchialine caves.[2]
Description
Mictaceans have a brood pouch (marsupium) and biramous thoracic limbs, but lack a carapace.[3] They have eyestalks but "no functioning visual elements".[4]
History
The existence of animals resembling the Mictacea had been predicted by Frederick Schram in the early 1980s. Two groups of scientists independently discovered the animals in 1985, and, once they learnt of each other's work, agreed to work together on the paper describing the new order.[5]
Species
A single species is recognised:
- Mictocarididae Bowman & Iliffe, 1985
- Mictocaris halope Bowman & Iliffe, 1985
References
- ^ J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132.
- ^ J. K. Lowry & M. Yerman. "Mictacea". crustacea.net. Australian Museum. Archived from the original on May 8, 2012. Retrieved September 3, 2007.
- ^ Matthew A. Wills (2001). "Morphological disparity: a primer". In Jonathan M. Adrain; Gregory D. Edgecombe; Bruce S. Lieberman (eds.). Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: an Analytical Approach. Topics in geobiology. Springer. pp. 55–144. ISBN 978-0-306-46721-9.
- ^ Olav Giere (2009). "Meiofauna taxa: a systematic account". Meiobenthology: the Microscopic Motile Fauna of Aquatic Sediments (2nd ed.). Springer. pp. 103–234. doi:10.1007/b106489 (inactive 31 July 2022). ISBN 978-3-540-68657-6.
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: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2022 (link) - ^ 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. JSTOR 1548221.
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