Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Maxillopoda

Pentastomida Diesing, 1836

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

*Pentastomata*	Rudolphi, 1809	synonym
*Pentastomida*		synonym

Cephalobaenida Heymons, 1935
Reighardiida Almeida & Christoffersen, 1999

Dutch: tongwormen

English: tongue worms

English-United States: tongue worms sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: tungmaskar

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). vii, 123 pp.
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.
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	Poore, G.C.B. 2012. The nomenclature of the Recent Pentastomida (Crustacea), with a list of species and available names. Systematic Parasitology 82: 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.

WoRMS (2014). Pentastomida. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22602