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Thermosbaenacea
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Thermosbaenacea

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. Due to their troglobitic lifestyle, thermosbaenaceans lack visual pigments and are therefore blind.

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4 branches of this order, most-observed first

Monodellidae

familyMonodellidae

Tulumellidae

familyTulumellidae

Thermosbaenidae

familyThermosbaenidae

Halosbaenidae

familyHalosbaenidae

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