WoRMS name details
Pancrustacea
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Status Hexapods are now accepted as derived from within the crustaceans. Pancrustacea and Tetraconata have been proposed as...
Status Hexapods are now accepted as derived from within the crustaceans. Pancrustacea and Tetraconata have been proposed as alternative names for this expanded concept of Crustacea. In WoRMS, Crustacea is used as the accepted name, being the oldest, most widely used and best established name. [details]
WoRMS (2026). Pancrustacea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1598178 on 2026-02-17
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Thorp, J. H.; Rogers, D. C. (2019). Keys to Palearctic Fauna. Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates. Volume IV. Academic Press, 920 pp. [details]
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Regier, J.C., J.W. Shultz & R.E. Kambic. (2005). Pancrustacean phylogeny: hexapods are terrestrial crustaceans and maxillopods are not monophyletic. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, Biological Sciences 272(1561):395-401., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2917 [details] Available for editors 
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Status Hexapods are now accepted as derived from within the crustaceans. Pancrustacea and Tetraconata have been proposed as alternative names for this expanded concept of Crustacea. In WoRMS, Crustacea is used as the accepted name, being the oldest, most widely used and best established name. [details]
