Remasellus parvus, the swimming Florida cave isopod, is an isopod endemic to 4 caves in the Ochlockonee and Aucilla-Suwanee drainages of Florida, United States.[1] It is the only species in the genus Remasellus.[4]

Remasellus
Critically Imperiled
Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Asellidae
Genus: Remasellus
Bowman & Sket, 1985 [2]
Species:
R. parvus
Binomial name
Remasellus parvus
(Steeves, 1964) [3]
Synonyms

Conasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964) [3]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Remasellus parvus". NatureServe. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
  2. "Remasellus Bowman and Sket, 1985". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Remasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
  4. Marilyn Schotte (2010). M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce; G. C. B. Poore; S. Taiti; G. D. F. Wilson (eds.). "Remasellus Bowman & Sket, 1985". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 19, 2011.