Xiphosura

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Merostomata
Ordo: Xiphosura
Subordines (2) (after Størmer, 1955): Xiphosurida – †Synziphosurida
Taxa (after Lamsdell, 2020): †Kasibelinuridae – †Lunataspis – Xiphosurida

Xiphosura incertae sedis: †Belinuropsis

Xiphosura Latreille, 1802

Lamsdell, J.C. 2013. Revised systematics of Palaeozoic ‘horseshoe crabs’ and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167(1): 1–27. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x . Reference page.
Lamsdell, J.C. 2020. The phylogeny and systematics of Xiphosura. PeerJ 8: e10431. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10431 . [as class]
Rudkin, D.M.; Young, G.A. 2009: Horseshoe crabs – an ancient ancestry revealed. Pp. 25-44 in: Tanacredi, J.T. et al. (eds.) Biology and Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs, Part 1 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89959-6_2
Størmer, L. 1955. Merostomata. In: Moore, R.C. (ed.): Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, P, Arthropoda 2, P4–P41. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5345 . [as subclass]