Biology:Spelaeogriphacea
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Short description: Order of cave dwelling crustaceans
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Subclass: | Eumalacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Spelaeogriphacea Gordon, 1957 |
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Spelaeogriphacea is an order of crustaceans that grow to no more than 10 millimetres (0.39 in). Little is known about the ecology of the order.[1]
Only four species, all subterranean, have been described. Of the three genera, Potiicoara is known only from a cave in Brazil 's Mato Grosso, Spelaeogriphus only from a cave on Table Mountain in South Africa, and the two Mangkurtu species only from individual Australian aquifers.[1] Fossils of the group are known from the Early Carboniferous of Canada (Acadiocaris) and the Early Cretaceous of Spain (Spinogriphus, Las Hoyas) and China (Liaoningogriphus, Yixian Formation), which are assigned to the family Acadiocarididae.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 D. Jaume (2008). "Global diversity of spelaeogriphaceans & thermosbaenaceans (Crustacea; Spelaeogriphacea & Thermosbaenacea) in freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595 (1): 219–224. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9017-1.
- ↑ Jaume, Damià; Pinardo‐Moya, Eva; Boxshall, Geoff A. (January 2013). "A presumed spelaeogriphacean crustacean from an upper Barremian wetland (Las Hoyas; Lower Cretaceous; Central Spain)" (in en). Palaeontology 56 (1): 15–28. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01144.x. ISSN 0031-0239. Bibcode: 2013Palgy..56...15J. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01144.x.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q665771 entry
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