Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclasses: Eumalacostraca – Hoplocarida – Phyllocarida

Overview of orders

Extant groups (16): Amphionidacea – Amphipoda – Anaspidacea – Bathynellacea – Cumacea – Decapoda – Euphausiacea – Isopoda – Leptostraca – Lophogastrida – Mictacea – Mysida – Spelaeogriphacea – Stomatopoda – Tanaidacea – Thermosbaenacea

Name

Malacostraca Latreille, 1802

References

• Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, xii + pp. 13–467 + [1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page. 
• Angyal, D., Chávez-Solís, E.M., Liévano-Beltrán, L.A., Magaña, B., Simões, N. & Mascaró, M. 2020. New distribution records of subterranean crustaceans from cenotes in Yucatan (Mexico). ZooKeys, 911: 21–49. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.911.47694 Reference page. 
• Huys, R. et al. 2014: On two reports associated with James Wood-Mason and Alfred William Alcock published by the Indian Museum and the Indian Marine Survey between 1890 and 1891: implications for malacostracan nomenclature. Zootaxa 3757(1): 1–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3757.1.1 Reference page. 
• Webber, W.R. et al. 2010: 8. Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. Pp. 98-232 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page.  Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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