Malacostraca

Malacostraca Temporal range: Cambrian–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Cless:	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802
Subclesses
Eumalacostraca Hoplocarida Phyllocarida See text for orders.

Malacostraca is the lairgest o the six classes o crustaceans, conteenin aboot 40,000 livin species, dividit amang 16 orders.