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The 18 pages that link to Malacostraca, each with the reason it gives.

• DecapodaNarrower topic: Decapoda is one of the major orders within this crustacean class.

• CrustaceaBroader topic: Its major lineages make up much of familiar crustacean diversity.

• AnomuraNarrower topic: This class contains Decapoda and supplies the wider body plan from which anomurans are classified.

• BrachyuraNarrower topic: This class contains Decapoda and provides Brachyura’s wider taxonomic setting.

• CarideaNarrower topic: Carideans are malacostracans with the body plan characteristic of the class.

• Mantis shrimpNarrower topic: Stomatopoda belongs to this broad crustacean class.

• PleopodBroader topic: Pleopods are characteristic abdominal appendages in many malacostracans.

• PenaeidaeNarrower topic: This broader crustacean group places penaeids within arthropod diversity.

• StomatopodaNarrower topic: Stomatopoda is one order within this broad crustacean class.

• IsopodaNarrower topic: Isopoda belongs within this class, whose members typically have a segmented thorax and abdomen.

• AmphipodaNarrower topic: Amphipoda belongs to this class, whose shared body plan provides a broader frame for comparison.

• BranchiopodaCompared with: Its familiar, often heavily segmented body plans differ from branchiopod forms.

• DecapodNarrower topic: Decapoda is a major order within this crustacean class.

• StenopodideaNarrower topic: This is the class containing Decapoda and therefore Stenopodidea.

• AxiideaNarrower topic: Decapods, including Axiidea, belong to this class.

• CumaceaNarrower topic: Cumacea belongs to this broad crustacean class.

• HippoideaNarrower topic: This broader crustacean class contains the order Decapoda and Hippoidea.

• LeptostracaNarrower topic: Leptostraca is one of the orders within this crustacean class.