The PEDIGREE of
Infraphylum Crustacea

     (Pentastomida (tongue worms) formerly treated as separate phylum)

 "Child(ren)":       Class Malacostraca ('Soft-shell')   ;   Branchiopoda (brine shrimp)   ;   Remipedia   ;   Cephalocarida (horseshoe shrimp)   ;   Maxillopoda (barnacles : tongue worms etc.)   ;   Ostracodai   ;   about 50000 species altogether
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/-- Domain of Eukaryotes   +====> [ 52]
/-- Superempire Unikonta
/-- Empire of Opisthokonts (Fungi & Animals)
/-- Superkingdom Holozoa
/-- Kingdom of Animals
/-- Subkingdom of Metazoa (Multicellular Animals)
/-- Superbranch Eumetazoa
/-- Superphylum Planulozoa
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates  (570 M BC)
/   | (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   | or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Ecdysozoa
/-- Supraphylum Panarthropoda
/-- Phylum Arthropoda
/-- Subphylum Tetraconata
/  
- Infraphylum Crustacea
 

 
  ``3-Great Grandchild:''       Suborder Pleocyemata
 
  ``9-Great Grandchild:''       Blue King Crab
 

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