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Reptantia
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Reptantia is a clade of decapod crustaceans named in 1880 which includes lobsters, crabs and many other well-known crustaceans.
Species
Suborder
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 3
- Collections
- UF
- Recorded in
- Netherland Antilles, Timor-Leste, Oman
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pleocyemata
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Systematics
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Reptantia is a clade of decapod crustaceans named in 1880 which includes lobsters, crabs and many other well-known crustaceans.
==Classification== In older classifications, Reptantia was one of the two suborders of Decapoda alongside Natantia, with Reptantia containing the walking forms, and Natantia containing the swimming forms (prawns, shrimp and boxer shrimp). However, in 1963 Martin Burkenroad found Natantia to be paraphyletic and invalid, and instead split Decapoda into the two suborders of Dendrobranchiata (prawns) and Pleocyemata. Pleocyemata contains all the members of the Reptantia (including crabs, lobsters, crayfish, and others), as well as the Stenopodidea ("boxer shrimp"), and Caridea (true shrimp). Reptantia remains a valid monophyletic grouping, but is now no longer ranked as a suborder.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Reptantia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.