I was reading about Copepods on Christopher Taylor's blog Catalogue of Organisms [Taxon of the Week: Some Copepods for your Reading Pleasure].It got me thinking about whether Crustaceans should be elevated to phylum status as proposed by Lynn Margulis and Karlene Schwartz in Five Kingdoms 3rd ed.. A quick search of the web revealed that scientists seem to be split on the issue. Several competing classifications are listed on Answers.com. The NCBI site lists Crustacea as a subclass of Phylum Arthrododa but the taxonomy on that site is notorious for being very conservative.
Are there any taxonomists out there? Is there a consensus?
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