Subclass PHYLLOPODA G.O. Sars, 1867

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Regional Maps

• Phyllopoda Sars, G.O. 1867. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés d’eau douce de Norvège. 1e Livraison. Les Malacotracés. Cpenhagen : Johnsen pp. 1-145. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36737] [5].

Introduction

Subclass Phyllopoda is sister to Sarsostraca and was defined according to modern standards by Olesen (2007, 2009), who pro¬vided six synapomorphies for the taxon: trunk limbs with five median endites and an unsegmented endopod; internal compound eyes; naupliar eye bearing four pigmented cups; telson with a pair of dorsal setae; oogenesis with three nutrition cells associated with each oocyte; and carapace first arising as “paired” anlagen immediately posterior to (but separate from) the head. As summarised by Rogers (2024) the extant Phyllopoda consist of two superorders: Calmanostraca and Diplostraca subdivided as below. Except for Cladocera, the unranked clades are not included in this AFD classification.

Superorder Calmanostraca Tasch, 1969
Order Notostraca Sars, 1867: 1 family

Superorder Diplostraca Gerstaecker, 1866
Order Laevicaudata Linder, 1945: 1 family

Unranked clade Onychocaudata Olesen & Richter, 2013
Order Spinicaudata Linder, 1945: 4 families

Unranked clade Cladoceromorpha Ax, 1999
Order Cyclestherida Sars, 1877: 1 family

Unranked clade Cladocera Latreille, 1829
Anomopoda Sars, 1865
Ctenopoda Sars, 1865
Haplopoda Sars, 1865
Onychopoda Sars, 1865

General References

Ax, P. 1999. Das System der Metazoa II. Ein Lehrbuch der phylogenetischen Systematik. Stuttgart/Jena : Fischer pp.

Olesen, J. 2007. Monophyly and phylogeny of Branchiopoda, with focus on morphology and homologies of branchiopod phyllopodous limbs. Journal of Crustacean Biology 27: 165–183

Olesen, J. 2009. Phylogeny of Branchiopoda (Crustacea)—character evolution and contribution of uniquely preserved fossils. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 67: 3–39

Olesen, J. & Richter, S. 2013. Onychocaudata (Branchiopoda: Diplostraca), a new high-level taxon in branchiopod systematics. Journal of Crustacean Biology 33: 62–65

Rogers, D.C. 2024. Current status of the systematics of large branchiopod crustaceans (Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida). Journal of Crustacean Biology 44: ruae046

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