Maxillopoda

Maxillopoda
Copepod (Calanoida)
Systematics
without rank: Primordial mouths (protostomia) Over trunk : Molting animals (Ecdysozoa) Trunk : Arthropod (arthropoda) Sub-stem : Crustaceans (Crustacea) Class : Maxillopoda
Scientific name
Maxillopoda
Dahl , 1956
Subclasses
Fish lice (Branchiura) Copepods (Copepoda) Mystacocarida Tongue worms (pentastomida) Tantulocarida Thecostraca

The Maxillopoda ( lat. Maxilla "jaws", "jaw"; Gr. Πούς "foot") are a class of (aquatic) crustaceans living in water . They are characterized by a reduction in the abdomen and its appendages. The head consists of up to five, the thorax of six and the abdomen of four segments and the telson . The appendages are absent on the abdominal segments.

The Maxillopoda are probably not a monophyletic group. In the opinion of many authors it is rather an embarrassment taxon in which the taxa that cannot be assigned to the other classes were collected.

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• Joel W. Martin, George E. Davis: An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. (= Science Series 39). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 2001, ISBN 1-891276-27-1 , pp. 20ff. (PDF file; 757 kB)

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