Marine biologists reporting in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution say that they have identified the world’s first venomous crustacean – a rare remipede called Speleonectes tulumensis. Speleonectes tulumensis. Image credit: University of Bonn. Remipedes are a group of blind, aquatic and cave-dwelling crustaceans first described in 1981. They occur only in underwater caves in Central America, the Caribbean, the Canary Islands, and western...
