Kumonga exleyi, also known as the Cape Range remipede,[5] is a species of remipede in the monospecific genus Kumonga and the monotypic family Kumongidae.[4][3][2] It was described in 1996 from specimens collected during the years of 1993 to 1995,[1] and was originally assigned to the genus Lasionectes, but was moved to its own genus, Kumonga, in 2013.[4][6][7] It is listed as a vulnerable species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and as a critically endangered species under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (WA).[1]
| Cape Range remipede | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Remipedia |
| Order: | Nectiopoda |
| Family: | Kumongidae Hoenemann et al., 2013[2] |
| Genus: | Kumonga Hoenemann et al., 2013[3] |
| Species: | K. exleyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Kumonga exleyi | |
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It is named after Kumonga, a kaiju from the 1967 kaiju film Son of Godzilla[7] and the cave diver Sheck Exley.
References
edit- 1 2 3 4 "Kumonga exleyi — Cape Range Remipede". www.environment.gov.au. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
- 1 2 Koenemann S, Hoenemann M, Stemme T, eds. (2026). "Kumongidae Hoenemann, Neiber, Schram & Koenemann in Hoenemann, Neiber, Humphreys, Iliffe, Li, Schram & Koenemann, 2013". World Remipedia Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
- 1 2 Koenemann S, Hoenemann M, Stemme T, eds. (2026). "Kumonga Hoenemann, Neiber, Schram & Koenemann in Hoenemann, Neiber, Humphreys, Iliffe, Li, Schram & Koenemann, 2013". World Remipedia Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 Koenemann S, Hoenemann M, Stemme T, eds. (2026). "Kumonga exleyi (Yager & Humphreys, 1996)". World Remipedia Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
- ↑ Kearney, Stephen; et al. (11 February 2022). "National parks are not enough: We need landholders to protect threatened species on their property". phys.org. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
- ↑ Yager, J.; Humphreys, W. F. (1 February 1996). "Lasionectes exleyi, sp, nov., the first remipede crustacean recorded from Australia and the Indian Ocean, with a key to the world species". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 10 (1): 171–187. doi:10.1071/it9960171. eISSN 1445-4572. ISSN 0818-0164. S2CID 84018419.
- 1 2 Humphreys, William F.; Li, Difei; Neiber, Marco T.; Koenemann, Stefan; Iliffe, Thomas M.; Schram, Frederick R.; Hoenemann, Mario (1 January 2013). "Phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of Remipedia (Nectiopoda) from Bayesian analysis of molecular data". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 33 (5): 603–619. Bibcode:2013JCBio..33..603H. doi:10.1163/1937240x-00002179. eISSN 1937-240X. ISSN 0278-0372. JSTOR 43835676. S2CID 84328393.
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