Remipede
Remipedia · Crustacean
Blind, colourless crustaceans from under a centimetre to about 4.5 cm long, swimming belly up with paddle-like legs that never stop beating, in the dark, oxygen-poor salt water of flooded coastal caves: mostly in the Caribbean (the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos, Yucatán), a few in a lava tube of the Canary Islands and one in a cave of western Australia. The first living one was found in 1979 by a cave diver in the Lucayan Caverns of Grand Bahama. They seize prey such as brine shrimp with clawed head limbs and stab it with venom, though they also filter food from the water; they are among the closest relatives of insects.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- Alone, day and night
- Size
- Tiny
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Sources
- Remipedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Speleonectes. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
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