Thermosbaenacea
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Thermosbaenacea is a group of crustaceans that live in thermal springs in fresh water, brackish water and anchialine habitats. They have occasionally been treated as a distinct superorder (Pancarida), but are generally considered to belong to the Peracarida . Due to their troglobitic lifestyle, thermosbaenaceans lack visual pigments and are therefore blind.
The current distribution of some genera tallies well with the Miocene extent of the Tethys Sea, and it is assumed that the extant taxa are derived from ancestors that lived in open marine habitats. Elsewhere, the distribution is consistent with the break-up of Pangaea .
The developing embryos are carried by the adult under its carapace until hatching .
Classification
Thirty-four species are currently recognised, in four families:- Thermosbaenidae Monod, 1927
- *Thermosbaena mirabilis Monod, 1924 (Tunisia)
- Monodellidae Taramelli, 1924
- *Monodella stygicola Ruffo, 1949 (southern Italy)
- *Tethysbaena aiakos Wagner, 1994 (Greece)
- *Tethysbaena argentarii (Stella, 1951) (Italy)
- *Tethysbaena atlantomaroccana (Boutin & Cals, 1985) (Morocco)
- *Tethysbaena calsi Wagner, 1994 (British Virgin Islands)
- *Tethysbaena colubrae Wagner, 1994 (Puerto Rico)
- *Tethysbaena coqui Wagner, 1994 (Puerto Rico)
- *Tethysbaena gaweini Wagner, 1994 (Cuba)
- *Tethysbaena haitiensis Wagner, 1994 (Cuba)
- *Tethysbaena halophila (S.L. Karaman, 1953) (Croatia)
- *Tethysbaena juglandis Wagner, 1994 (Haiti)
- *Tethysbaena juriaani Wagner, 1994 (Cuba)
- *Tethysbaena lazarei Wagner, 1994 (Cuba)
- *Tethysbaena relicta (Por, 1962) (Israel)
- *Tethysbaena sanctaecrucis (Stock, 1976) (British Virgin Islands)
- *Tethysbaena scabra (Pretus, 1991) (Balearic Islands)
- *Tethysbaena scitula Wagner, 1994 (British Virgin Islands)
- *Tethysbaena siracusae Wagner, 1994 (Sicily)
- *Tethysbaena stocki Wagner, 1994 (British Virgin Islands)
- *Tethysbaena somala (Chelazzi & Messana, 1982) (Somalia)
- *Tethysbaena tarsiensis Wagner, 1994 (Spain)
- *Tethysbaena texana (Maguire, 1965) (Texas)
- *Tethysbaena tinima Wagner, 1994 (Cuba)
- *Tethysbaena vinabayesi Wagner, 1994 (Cuba)
- Tulumellidae Wagner, 1994
- *Tulumella bahamensis Yager, 1988 (Bahamas)
- *Tulumella grandis Yager, 1988 (Bahamas)
- *Tulumella unidens Bowman & Iliffe, 1988 (Mexico)
- Halosbaenidae Monod & Cals, 1988
- *Limnosbaena finki Mestrov & Lattinger-Penko, 1969 (Bosnia-Hercegovina; northern Italy)
- *Halosbaena acanthura Stock, 1976 (Venezuela; Curaçao)
- *Halosbaena fortunata Bowman & Iliffe, 1986 (Canary Islands)
- *Halosbaena tulki Poore & Humphreys, 1992 (Western Australia)
- *Theosbaena cambodjiana Cals & Boutin, 1985 (Cambodia)
References
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