Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Oligostraca > Class Ichthyostraca

Pentastomida Diesing, 1836

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Subclass group names

*Pentastomata*	Rudolphi, 1809	synonym

Children

Cephalobaenida Heymons, 1935
Porocephalida Heymons, 1935
Reighardiida Almeida & Christoffersen, 1999

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: tongwormen

English: linguatulids; pentastomids; tongue worms sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Linguatuliden; Pentastomitiden; Zungenwürmer sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: 舌形亜綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: tungmaskar

Literature

original description	Huxley, T.H. 1869. An introduction to the classification of animals. Churchill & Sons: London. 147 pp.
basis of record	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
additional source	Poore, G. C. B. (2012). The nomenclature of the Recent Pentastomida (Crustacea), with a list of species and available names. Systematic Parasitology. 82(3): 211-240.
additional source	Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp.
additional source	Poore, G.C.B. 2012. The nomenclature of the Recent Pentastomida (Crustacea), with a list of species and available names: Corrigendum. Systematic Parasitology 83: 249.
additional source	Christoffersen, M.L., and De Assis, J.E. 2013. A systematic monograph of the Recent Pentastomida, with a compilation of their hosts. Zoologische Mededelingen 87: 1-206.