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Crustaceans Notes

Eumalacostraca is a subclass of crustaceans that includes around 40,000 described species, characterized by a body structure known as the 'caridoid facies'. This subclass features distinct anatomical traits such as a carapace, jointed thoracic limbs, and a flexible abdomen. The classification of eumalacostracans includes various orders, with some extinct orders also noted.

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Crustaceans Notes

Eumalacostraca is a subclass of crustaceans that includes around 40,000 described species, characterized by a body structure known as the 'caridoid facies'. This subclass features distinct anatomical traits such as a carapace, jointed thoracic limbs, and a flexible abdomen. The classification of eumalacostracans includes various orders, with some extinct orders also noted.

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Eumalacostraca is a subclass of crustaceans, containing almost all living malacostracans, or about

40,000 described species.[1] The remaining subclasses are the Phyllocarida and possibly
the Hoplocarida.[2] Eumalacostracans have 19 segments (5 cephalic, 8 thoracic and 6 abdominal).
This arrangement is known as the "caridoid facies", a term coined by William Thomas Calman in
1909. The thoracic limbs are jointed and used for swimming or walking. The common ancestor is
thought to have had a carapace, and most living species possess one, but it has been lost in some
subgroups.

Caridoid facies[edit]
Calman identified the following features as distinguishing eumalacostracan crustaceans: [3]
"Carapace enveloping the thoracic region; movably stalked eyes; biramous first antenna; scale-like
exopod on the second antenna; natatory exopods on the thoracic limbs; elongate, ventrally flexible
abdomen; tail fan formed by the lamellar rami of the uropods on either side of the telson."

Classification[edit]
Martin and Davis present the following classification of living eumalacostracans into orders, to which
extinct orders have been added, indicated by .[2]
The group as originally described by Karl Grobben[4] included the Stomatopoda (mantis shrimp), and
some modern experts continue to use this definition. This article follows Martin and Davis in
excluding them; they are placed in their own subclass, Hoplocarida.
Subclass Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892

Superorder Syncarida Packard, 1885

Order Palaeocaridacea

Order Bathynellacea Chappuis, 1915

Order Anaspidacea Calman, 1904 (including Stygocaridacea)

Superorder Peracarida Calman, 1904

Order Spelaeogriphacea Gordon, 1957

Order Thermosbaenacea Monod, 1927

Order Lophogastrida Sars, 1870

Order Mysida Haworth, 1825

Order Mictacea Bowman, Garner, Hessler, Iliffe & Sanders, 1985

Order Amphipoda Latreille, 1816

Order Isopoda Latreille, 1817

Order Tanaidacea Dana, 1849

Order Cumacea Kryer, 1846

Superorder Eucarida Calman, 1904

Order Euphausiacea Dana, 1852

Order Amphionidacea Williamson, 1973

Order Decapoda Latreille, 1802

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