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Decapod

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The Decapoda or decapods, from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás), meaning "ten", and πούς (poús), meaning "foot", is a large order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, and includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and prawns. Most decapods are scavengers. The order is estimated to contain nearly 15,000 extant species in around 2,700 genera, with around 3,300 fossil species.<ref name="Grave">Template:Cite journal</ref> Nearly half of these species are crabs, with the shrimp (about 3,000 species) and Anomura including hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, squat lobsters (about 2500 species) making up the bulk of the remainder.<ref name="Grave"/> The earliest fossils of the group date to the Devonian.

AnatomyEdit

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Decapods can have as many as 38 appendages,<ref name="Decapod_characters">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> arranged in one pair per body segment. As the name Decapoda (from the Greek {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, "ten", and {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, -pod, "foot") implies, ten of these appendages are considered legs. They are the pereiopods, found on the last five thoracic segments.<ref name="Decapod_characters" /> In many decapods, one pair of these "legs" has enlarged pincers, called chelae, with the legs being called chelipeds. In front of the pereiopods are three pairs of maxillipeds that function as feeding appendages. The head has five pairs of appendages, including mouthparts, antennae, and antennules. There are five more pairs of appendages on the abdomen. They are called pleopods. There is one final pair called uropods, which, with the telson, form the tail fan.<ref name="Decapod_characters" />

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"Decapoda" from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904

EvolutionEdit

A 2019 molecular clock analysis suggested decapods originated in the Late Ordovician around 455 million years ago, with the Dendrobranchiata (prawns) being the first group to diverge. The remaining group, called Pleocyemata, then diverged between the swimming shrimp groupings and the crawling/walking group called Reptantia, consisting of lobsters and crabs. High species diversification can be traced to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, which coincides with the rise and spread of modern coral reefs, a key habitat for the decapods.<ref name=Wolfe2019>Template:Cite journal</ref> Despite the inferred early origin, the oldest fossils of the group such as Palaeopalaemon only date to the Late Devonian.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

The cladogram below shows the internal relationships of Decapoda, from analysis by Wolfe et al. (2019).<ref name=Wolfe2019/> Template:Decapoda cladogram

In the cladogram above, the clade Glypheidea is excluded due to lack of sufficient DNA evidence, but is likely the sister clade to Polychelida, within Reptantia.<ref name=Wolfe2019/>

ClassificationEdit

Classification within the order Decapoda depends on the structure of the gills and legs, and the way in which the larvae develop, giving rise to two suborders: Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata. The Dendrobranchiata consist of prawns, including many species colloquially referred to as "shrimp", such as the "white shrimp", Litopenaeus setiferus. The Pleocyemata include the remaining groups, including "true shrimp".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Those groups that usually walk rather than swim (Pleocyemata, excluding Stenopodidea and Caridea) form a clade called Reptantia.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

This classification to the level of superfamilies follows De Grave et al.<ref name="Grave"/>

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Whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei (Dendrobranchiata: Penaeoidea)
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Heterocarpus ensifer (Caridea: Pandaloidea)
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Austropotamobius pallipes (Astacidea: Astacoidea)
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Upogebia deltaura (Gebiidea: Upogebiidae)
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California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus (Achelata: Palinuridae)
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Polycheles sculptus (Polychelida: Polychelidae)
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Australian land hermit crab, Coenobita variabilis (Anomura: Paguroidea)
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Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus (Brachyura: Portunoidea)

Order Decapoda Latreille, 1802

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