Achelata

Achelata
Temporal range: Upper Jurassic – Recent
The phyllosoma larva
is characteristic of the Achelata
(drawing by Haeckel)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
(unranked): Reptantia
Infraorder: Achelata
Scholtz & Richter, 1995
Families [1]

The Achelata is an infra-order of the decapod crustaceans, holding the spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and their fossil relatives.

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