Xenocarida | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
(unranked): |
Xenocarida Regier et al., 2010 |
Classes | |
Xenocarida (from the Greek for strange shrimp) is a clade inside the subphylum Crustacea that comprises two classes that were discovered in the 20th century: Remipedia and Cephalocarida. Xenocarida is thought to be the sister clade to Hexapoda.