Hoplocarida

Hoplocarida

Odontodactylus scyllarus (Stomatopoda: Odontodactylidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Subclass:	Hoplocarida Calman, 1904
Orders
Stomatopoda Aeschronectida † Palaeostomatopoda †

Hoplocarida is a subclass of crustaceans. The only extant members are the mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda), but two other orders existed in the Palaeozoic: Aeschronectida and Palaeostomatopoda.^[1]

References

↑ Ronald A. Jenner, Cees H. J. Hof & Frederick R. Schram (1998). "Palaeo- and archaeostomatopods (Hoplocarida: Crustacea) from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Mississippian (Namurian), of central Montana". Contributions to Zoology 67 (3): 155–186.

Orders of Malacostraca

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea

Phyllocarida

†Archaeostraca
†Hoplostraca
Leptostraca
†Canadaspidida?
†Hymenostraca?

Hoplocarida

†Aeschronectida
†Archaeostomatopoda
Stomatopoda (mantis shrimp)

Eumalacostraca

Syncarida	Anaspidacea Bathynellacea Palaeocaridacea

Peracarida	Spelaeogriphacea Thermosbaenacea Lophogastrida Mysida (opossum shrimp) Stygiomysida Mictacea Amphipoda Isopoda †Pygocephalomorpha Tanaidacea Cumacea (hooded shrimp)

Eucarida	Amphionidacea (Amphionides reynaudii) Euphausiacea (krill) Decapoda (shrimp, prawns, crayfish, lobsters, crabs, etc.)

The three most speciose orders are marked in bold; obelisks (†) mark extinct orders.

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