Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea

Malacostraca Latreille, 1802

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Eumalacostraca
Hoplocarida Calman, 1904
Phyllocarida Packard, 1879

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Swedish: storkräftor

Literature

basis of record	Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp.
additional source	Price, W. (2001). World list of Mysidacea.
additional source	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.