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Achelata
Infraorder of crustaceans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Achelata is an infra-order of the decapod crustaceans, holding the spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and their fossil relatives.
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Achelata | |
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The phyllosoma larva is characteristic of the Achelata (drawing by Haeckel) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
(unranked): | Reptantia |
Infraorder: | Achelata Scholtz & Richter, 1995 |
Families [1] | |
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