Pancrustacea is the clade that comprises all crustaceans and all hexapods. This grouping is contrary to the Atelocerata hypothesis, in which Hexapoda and Myriapoda are sister taxa, and Crustacea are o
The clade Multicrustacea constitutes the largest superclass of crustaceans, containing approximately four-fifths of all described non-hexapod crustacean species, including crabs, lobsters, crayfish, s
Pancrustacea
…Xenocarida ("strange shrimp")—Cephalocarida, Remipedia. Of these proposed clades, only Multicrustacea was confirmed in later molecular studies. In a 2012 molecular study, von Reumont et al. challenge the monophyly of Vericrustacea: they present four…
Crustacea diversity
Copepod
Sacculina Sacculina carcini (Rhizocephala) parasite of a crab.