Spelaeogriphacea
Sign in to saveSpelaeogriphacea is an order of crustaceans that grow to no more than . Little is known about the ecology of the order.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- monotypic taxon
- Parent taxon
- Peracarida
- Image
- Spelaeogriphus lepidops (10.3897-subtbiol.36.60162) Figure 1 (cropped).jpg
Show 2 more facts
- taxon name
- Spelaeogriphacea
- taxon rank
- order
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- References
- External links
Spelaeogriphacea is an order of crustaceans that grow to no more than . Little is known about the ecology of the order.
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. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spelaeogriphacea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.