Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Mandibulata
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Oligostraca
Classis: Ichthyostraca
Subclasses: Branchiura – Pentastomida
Name
Ichthyostraca Zrzavý, Hypša & Vlášková, 1997
References
Primary references
Zrzavý, J., Hypša, V. & Vlášková, M. 1997. Arthropod phylogeny: taxonomic congruence, total evidence and conditional combination approaches to morphological and molecular data sets. In: Fortey, R.A. & Thomas, R.H. (eds) Arthropod Relationships. Systematics Association Special Volume Series 55. Chapman & Hall, London. pp. 97–107. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4904-4_9 Paywall. Reference page.
Additional references
Lagunas-Calvo, O., García-Prieto, L., Osorio-Sarabia, D., León-Règagnon, V. & Oceguera-Figueroa, A. 2020. New records of Ichthyostraca Zrzavý, Hypša & Vlášková, 1997 (Pancrustacea) from Mexico with an annotated checklist of North America. Zootaxa 4755(1): 1–55. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.1.1 Paywall Reference page.
Links
Ichthyostraca in the World Register of Marine Species
Ichthyostraca is a class of parasitic crustaceans. It is composed of two subclasses; Pentastomida and Branchiura. They mainly parasitize various vertebrates and feed on their blood or mucus.[2][3]
References
D. Walossek & K. J. Müller (1994). "Pentastomid parasites from the Lower Palaeozoic of Sweden". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 85: 1–37. doi:10.1017/s0263593300006295. S2CID 86957051.
Barton, Diane P.; Gherman, Calin Mircea; Zhu, Xiaocheng; Shamsi, Shokoofeh (2022). "Characterization of tongue worms, Linguatula spp. (Pentastomida) in Romania, with the first record of an unknown adult Linguatula from roe deer (Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus)". Parasitology Research. 121 (8): 2379–2388. doi:10.1007/s00436-022-07566-9. PMC 9279206. PMID 35689112.
Thorp, James; Covich, Alan (2009). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Inv
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