A discovery under waterSourced
A venomous cave crustacean
needed a new class name.
Cave diver and zoologist Jill Yager discovered a venomous, centipede-like crustacean in a Bahamas underwater cave in 1979. She named its class Remipedia, meaning oar-footed.
A small cave animal
made room in the family tree.
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