Allotriocarida
Sign in to saveAllotriocarida (from classical Greek ''/allotrios'' 'different, foreign' and ''/karis'' 'shrimp, crustacean') is a clade of Pancrustacea, containing Hexapoda (all insects, springtails & their close relatives). It also contains three non-hexapod classes: Remipedia (blind, venomous crustaceans), Cephalocarida (translucent aquatic detrivores), and Branchiopoda (freshwater, non-decapod 'shrimp'). One study also found the Copepoda to be part of Allotriocarida.
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Allotriocarida (from classical Greek ''/allotrios'' 'different, foreign' and ''/karis'' 'shrimp, crustacean') is a clade of Pancrustacea, containing Hexapoda (all insects, springtails & their close relatives). It also contains three non-hexapod classes: Remipedia (blind, venomous crustaceans), Cephalocarida (translucent aquatic detrivores), and Branchiopoda (freshwater, non-decapod 'shrimp'). One study also found the Copepoda to be part of Allotriocarida.
Allotriocarida is one of three major clades within Pancrustacea, being most closely related to its sister clade Multicrustacea (crabs, lobsters, barnacles, etc.), and more distantly related to the superclass Oligostraca (seed shrimp, fish lice, and tongue worms).
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