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<I>Hirsutia sandersetalia</I>

Hirsutia sandersetalia

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Order MICTACEA Bowman, Garner, Hessler, Iliffe & Sanders, 1985


Compiler and date details

Gary C.B. Poore

Introduction

The order Mictacea was described for species in two families (Bowman et al. 1985). The only species of the family Mictocarididae inhabits marine pools in sea-level caves in Bermuda (Bowman & Iliffe 1985). Members of the second family, Hirsutiidae, live in the deep sea, two species in the Atlantic (Sanders et al. 1985; Gutu & Iliffe 1998) and the third off the southeastern Australian coast. Gutu (1998) placed the Mictocarididae with the Spelaeogriphacea in a new peracarid order, Cosinzeneacea, and Gutu & Iliffe (1998) placed Hirsutiidae in another order, Bochusacea. Neither proposal has been widely accepted.

 

Diagnosis

Body slender; head fused to thoracomere 1; carapace absent; telson free; antenna 1 with 2 flagella; maxilliped without epipod; pereopods with natatory exopods; pleopods 1–5 reduced.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)