Syncarida

{{Short description|Superorder of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Koonunga cursor.png

| image_caption = Koonunga cursor

| taxon = Syncarida

| authority = Packard, 1885

| subdivision_ranks = Orders

| subdivision = *Anaspidacea Calman, 1904

• Bathynellacea Chappuis, 1915
• †Palaeocaridacea Brooks. 1979

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Syncarida is a superorder of crustaceans, comprising the two extant orders Anaspidacea and Bathynellacea,{{ITIS | id = 89802 | taxon = Syncarida | accessdate = August 16, 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://crustacea.nhm.org/peet/leptostraca/classification.html |title=Classification |publisher=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |date=2004 |author=Todd Haney |accessdate=August 8, 2007}} and the extinct order Palaeocaridacea.{{cite book |author1=A. I. Camacho |author2=A. G. Valdecasas |name-list-style=amp |year=2008 |title=Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment |series=Developments in Hydrobiology |volume=198 |pages=257–266 |chapter=Global diversity of syncarids (Syncarida; Crustacea) in freshwater |doi=10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_28 |editor1=E. V. Balian |editor2=C. Lévêque |editor3=H. Segers |editor4=K. Martens |publisher=Springer}}