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Malacostraca (disused)
Taxonomy
Malacostraca was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant.
It was reranked as the class Malacostraca by Martin (1904), Squires (1984), Bengtson (1992), Squires (1999), Martin and Davis (2001), Sepkoski (2002), Kiessling (2003), Briggs et al. (2004), Collette and Hagadorn (2010), Oakley et al. (2013), Lozano-Fernandez et al. (2019), Hegna et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Crustacea by Latreille (1802); to Arthropoda by Squires (1984), Squires (1999), Sepkoski (2002); to Crustacea by Martin (1904), Bengtson (1992), Martin and Davis (2001), Kiessling (2003), Briggs et al. (2004), Collette and Hagadorn (2010); and to Multicrustacea by Oakley et al. (2013), Lozano-Fernandez et al. (2019), Hegna et al. (2020).
It was reranked as the class Malacostraca by Martin (1904), Squires (1984), Bengtson (1992), Squires (1999), Martin and Davis (2001), Sepkoski (2002), Kiessling (2003), Briggs et al. (2004), Collette and Hagadorn (2010), Oakley et al. (2013), Lozano-Fernandez et al. (2019), Hegna et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Crustacea by Latreille (1802); to Arthropoda by Squires (1984), Squires (1999), Sepkoski (2002); to Crustacea by Martin (1904), Bengtson (1992), Martin and Davis (2001), Kiessling (2003), Briggs et al. (2004), Collette and Hagadorn (2010); and to Multicrustacea by Oakley et al. (2013), Lozano-Fernandez et al. (2019), Hegna et al. (2020).