Travaux de l'Institut de Speologie Emile Racovitza (Jan 2011)

Essai d’analyse critique des principales hypothèses concernant la phylogénie des Malacostracés (Crustacea, Malacostraca)

  • IONEL TABACARU,
  • DAN L. DANIELOPOL

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 50, no. 2011
pp. 87 – 119

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Malacostraca, as a Class, represents the largest taxonomic group within the Subphylum Crustacea. This essay is a contribution to the perennial debate of the way to classify the more than 40,000 malacostracan species. The various opinions on the way generations of carcinologists systematised Malacostraca in Orders and Superorders is synthetically reviewed

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