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Enantiopoda Nectiopoda | ||||||||
Remipedia is a class of Arthropods first described by a fossil member, Enantiopoda (Lower Pennsylvanian). Subsequently, about a dozen living species have been encountered in the Caribbean and Australia. All living members are eyeless and live in caves connected to salt sea water. These species have been assigned to one order Nectiopoda and two families Godzilliidae and Speleonidae.
Members of this group are colorless with a head and up to thirty-two similar body segments composing an elongate trunk. The swimming appendages are lateral on each segment, and these animals swim on their backs.