Thecostraca Totally Explained

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Thecostraca are a group of marine invertebrates containing about 1,320 described species. Many species have planktonic larvae which become sessile or parasitic as adults.
   The most important subgroup are the barnacles, in subclass Cirripedia, constituting about 1,220 known species.
   The subgroup Facetotecta contains a single genus, Hansenocaris, known only from the tiny planktonic nauplii called "y-larvae". These larvae have no known adult form, though it's suspected that they're parasites, and their affinity is uncertain: some researchers believe that they may be larval tantulocaridans (no larval tantulocaridans are known, so this would solve two puzzles at once).
   The group Ascothoracida contains about 100 species, all parasites of coelenterates and echinoderms.

Classification

This article follows Martin and Davis in placing Thecostraca as a subclass of Maxillopoda and in the following classification of thecostracans down to the level of orders:
Subclass Thecostraca Gruvel, 1905

Infraclass Facetotecta Grygier, 1985
Infraclass Ascothoracida Lacaze-Duthiers, 1880
- Order Laurida Grygier, 1987
- Order Dendrogastrida Grygier, 1987
Infraclass Cirripedia Burmeister, 1834
- Superorder Acrothoracica Gruvel, 1905
  - Order Pygophora Berndt, 1907
  - Order Apygophora Berndt, 1907
- Superorder Rhizocephala Müller, 1862
  - Order Kentrogonida Delage, 1884
  - Order Akentrogonida Häfele, 1911
- Superorder Thoracica Darwin, 1854
  - Order Pedunculata Lamarck, 1818
  - Order Sessilia Lamarck, 1818

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