Senticaudata is one of the four suborders of the crustacean order

Amphipoda Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far desc ...

(aka scuds, sideswimmers). It includes some 5000 species, which is more than 50% or the currently recognized amphipod diversity.Introduction
World Amphipoda Database (read 23 March 2014) Senticaudata was split off from the traditional suborder

Gammaridea Gammaridea is one of the suborders of the order Amphipoda, comprising small, shrimp-like crustaceans. Until recently, in a traditional classification, it encompassed about 7,275 (92%) of the 7,900 species of amphipods described by then, in approx ...

by Lowry & Myers in 2013, as a part of a process of reorganising the higher taxonomy of amphipods. It now also encompasses the previously recognized

Caprellidea Caprelloidea is a superfamily of marine crustaceans in the order Amphipoda. It includes "untypical" forms of amphipods, such as the skeleton shrimps (Caprellidae) and whale lice (Cyamidae). The group was formerly treated as one of the four amphip ...

and

Corophiidea Corophiida is an infraorder of amphipods that contains the two parvorders Caprellidira (skeleton shrimp and whale lice) and Corophiidira. In 2003-2013 this group was treated as a suborder, Corophiidea, which in turn had been re-established to c ...

.Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (2013
A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
Zootaxa 3610 (1): 1-80. The suborder is defined by a presence of strong apical setae on the 1st and 2nd

uropod Uropods are posterior appendages found on a wide variety of crustaceans. They typically have functions in locomotion. Definition Uropods are often defined as the appendages of the last body segment of a crustacean. An alternative definition sugge ...

s. Senticaudata contains much of the world freshwater amphipod diversity, whereas the majority of its species are still marine. Among the major superfamilies included are the Gammaroidea, Crangonyctoidea,

Talitroidea Gammaridea is one of the suborders of the order Amphipoda, comprising small, shrimp-like crustaceans. Until recently, in a traditional classification, it encompassed about 7,275 (92%) of the 7,900 species of amphipods described by then, in approx ...

and Corophioidea.Horton, T. (2013)
Senticaudata

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Infraorders and superfamilies

* Bogidiellida **Bogidielloidea * Carangoliopsida **Carangoliopsoidea *

Corophiida Corophiida is an infraorder of amphipods that contains the two parvorders Caprellidira ( skeleton shrimp and whale lice) and Corophiidira. In 2003-2013 this group was treated as a suborder, Corophiidea, which in turn had been re-established ...

Caprelloidea Caprelloidea is a superfamily of marine crustaceans in the order Amphipoda. It includes "untypical" forms of amphipods, such as the skeleton shrimps (Caprellidae) and whale lice (Cyamidae). The group was formerly treated as one of the four amp ...

**Aetiopedesoidea **Isaeoidea **Microprotopoidea **Neomegamphoidea **Photoidea **Rakirooidea **Aoroidea **Cheluroidea **Chevalioidea **Corophioidea * Gammarida ** Gammaroidea ** Crangonyctoidea **Allocrangonyctoidea * Hadziida **Calliopioidea **Hadzioidea * Talitrida **Biancolinoidea **Caspicoloidea **Kurioidea **Talitroidea

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5679193 Amphipoda Arthropod suborders