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 <ref>Joel W. Martin and George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.</ref>. 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 <ref>GCB Poore & WF Humphreys. First record of Thermosbaenacea (Crustacea) from the Southern Hemisphere: a new species from a cave in tropical Western Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 719-725.</ref>.
The developing embryos are carried by the adult under its carapace until hatching <ref>Lowry, J K (1999 onwards). Crustacea, the Higher Taxa: Description, Identification, and Information Retrieval.</ref>.
[edit] Classification
Thirty-four species are currently recognised, in four families:
- Thermosbaenidae Monod, 1927</small>
- Thermosbaena mirabilis Monod, 1924 Image:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia
- Monodellidae Taramelli, 1924
- Monodella stygicola Ruffo, 1949 southern Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
- Tethysbaena aiakos Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greece
- Tethysbaena argentarii (Stella, 1951) Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
- Tethysbaena atlantomaroccana (Boutin & Cals, 1985) Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco
- Tethysbaena calsi Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg British Virgin Islands
- Tethysbaena colubrae Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico
- Tethysbaena coqui Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico
- Tethysbaena gaweini Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba
- Tethysbaena haitiensis Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba
- Tethysbaena halophila (S.L. Karaman, 1953) Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
- Tethysbaena juglandis Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Haiti.svg Haiti
- Tethysbaena juriaani Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba
- Tethysbaena lazarei Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba
- Tethysbaena relicta (Por, 1962) Image:Flag of Israel (bordered).svg Israel
- Tethysbaena sanctaecrucis (Stock, 1976) Image:Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg British Virgin Islands
- Tethysbaena scabra (Pretus, 1991) Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spain (Balearic Islands)
- Tethysbaena scitula Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg British Virgin Islands
- Tethysbaena siracusae Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (Sicily)
- Tethysbaena stocki Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg British Virgin Islands
- Tethysbaena somala (Chelazzi & Messana, 1982) Image:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia
- Tethysbaena tarsiensis Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spain
- Tethysbaena texana (Maguire, 1965) Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States (Texas)
- Tethysbaena tinima Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba
- Tethysbaena vinabayesi Wagner, 1994 Image:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba
- Tulumellidae Wagner, 1994
- Tulumella bahamensis Yager, 1988 Image:Flag of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas
- Tulumella grandis Yager, 1988 Image:Flag of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas
- Tulumella unidens Bowman & Iliffe, 1988 Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
- Halosbaenidae Monod & Cals, 1988
- Limnosbaena finki Mestrov & Lattinger-Penko, 1969 Image:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina and northern Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
- Halosbaena acanthura Stock, 1976 Image:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Image:Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (bordered).svg Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao)
- Halosbaena fortunata Bowman & Iliffe, 1986 Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spain (Canary Islands)
- Halosbaena tulki Poore & Humphreys, 1992 Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia (Western Australia)
- Theosbaena cambodjiana Cals & Boutin, 1985 Image:Flag of Cambodia.svg Cambodia
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