Hoplocarida | |
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Odontodactylus scyllarus (Stomatopoda: Odontodactylidae) |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Subclass: |
Hoplocarida Calman, 1904 |
Orders | |
Hoplocarida is a subclass of crustaceans. The only extant members are the mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda), but two other orders existed in the Palaeozoic: Aeschronectida and Palaeostomatopoda.