Crustaceomorpha

Crustaceomorpha

Crustaceomorpha is a proposed clade of arthropods that includes the agnostids and the crustaceans. Synapomorphies for the clade are that the larval antenna is a feeding or locomotory organ, and there are six endopodal podomeres in post-antennal limbs.[1]

References

  1. ^ Jan Bergström & Xian-Guang Hou (2005). "Early Palaeozoic non-lamellipedian arthropods". In Stefan Koenemann & Ronald A. Jenner. Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships. Taylor & Francis. pp. 75–93. doi:10.1201/9781420037548.ch4. ISBN 9780849334986.