Syncarida is a
superorder
Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...
of
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
s, comprising the two extant
orders
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
Anaspidacea and
Bathynellacea, and the extinct order
Palaeocaridacea. Fifty-nine living genera are known, in six families:
;
Anaspidacea Calman, 1904
*
Anaspididae Thomson, 1893
*
Koonungidae Sayce, 1908
*
Psammaspididae Schminke, 1974
*
Stygocarididae Noodt, 1963
;
Bathynellacea Chappuis, 1915
*
Bathynellidae Grobben, 1904
*
Parabathynellidae Noodt, 1965
References
*
Arthropod superorders
Taxa named by Alpheus Spring Packard
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