Information: Subphylum Crustacea
Dr. Hieber, Invertebrate Zoology (Bi 38)


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Taxonomy: Subphylum Crustacea
Dr. Hieber, Invertebrate Zoology (Bi 38)


 ~ This is the current taxonomic hierarchy (incomplete) to Infraorder for the Crustacea as outlined in Brusca & Brusca (pgs. 595-601), and presented in your lab manual. You are responsible for knowing only those taxonomic ranks that are highlighted, and the specimens presented in laboratory representative of each of those ranks.


    Sub-Phylum Crustacea
    • Class Remipedia
    • Class Cephalocarida
    • Class Branchiopoda
          • Order Anostraca
          • Order Notostraca
          • Order Cladocera
          • Order Conchostraca
    • Class Maxillopoda
      • Sublass Ostracoda
      • Subclass Mystacocarida
      • Subclass Copepoda
      • Subclass Branchiura
      • Subclass Cirripedia
      • Subclass Tantulocarida
    • Class Malacostraca
      • Subclass Phyllocarida
      • Subclass Eumalacostraca
        • Superorder Hoplocarida
          • Order Stomatopoda
        • Superorder Syncarida
        • Superorder Eucarida
          • Order Euphausiacea
          • Order Amphionidacea
          • Order Decapoda
            • Suborder Dendrobrachiata
            • Suborder Pleocyemata
              • Infraorder Caridea
              • Infraorder Stenopodidea
              • Infraorder Thalassinidea
              • Infraorder Astacidea
              • Infraorder Palinura
              • Infraorder Anomura
              • Infraorder Brachyura
        • Superorder Peracarida
          • Order Mysidacea
          • Order Cumacea
          • Order Amphipoda
          • Order Isopoda
          • Order Tanaidacea


 ~ Here are links to sites with taxonomic information about crustaceans, or alternate hierachies of the crustacea or crustacean groups.