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Remipede

Crustaceans

Remipedes, class Remipedia, are blind, worm-like crustaceans discovered only in 1981, living exclusively in flooded cave systems connected to the sea, mostly in the Caribbean, the Canary Islands and Western Australia. They are among the very few crustaceans known to be venomous, using fang-like appendages behind the mouth to inject prey with venom, and their unusual, uniformly segmented body plan has made them significant to scientific debate over the evolutionary origins of the crustacean and insect body plans.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Carnivore 1
System (Realm)
Marine 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Identification
Distinguishing Appearance
Blind, elongate crustaceans with paddle-like swimming appendages on each trunk segment 1
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 3
Scientific Name
Remipedia 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Arthropoda, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Remipede
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Norway

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources
1. Remipedia (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    Remipedia
  • Description, blindness clause
    blind crustaceans
  • system (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)
    They are found in coastal aquifers which contain saline groundwater, with populations identified in almost every ocean basin so far explored, including in Australia, the Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Behaviour and diet
    Remipedes can feed on living prey such as Artemia brine shrimp, using their powerful cephalic limbs to catch and shake the prey while stabbing it with their venomous maxillules.
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2. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ490800, descriptionView the Source
3. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Animalia
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 23
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 23
"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Animals","language":"EN"},{"name":"Fauna","language":"EN"},{"name":"Animaux","language":"FR"}],"cites_listings":[]
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Wikidata: Remipede
  • Wikidata Q490800, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Child Taxon Of: Arthropoda, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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