Editing Natantia

{{Short description|Historic group of crustaceans}}
'''Natantia''' (Boas, 1880) is an [[obsolete]] [[taxon]] of [[Decapoda|decapod crustaceans]], comprising those families that move predominantly by swimming – the [[shrimp]] (comprising [[Caridea]] and [[Procarididea]]), prawns ([[Dendrobranchiata]]) and [[Stenopodidea|boxer shrimp]]. The remaining Decapoda were placed in the [[Reptantia]], and consisted of [[crab]]s, [[lobster]]s and other large animals that move chiefly by walking along the bottom.<ref name="Bauer">{{cite book |author=Raymond T. Bauer |year=2004 |title=Remarkable Shrimps: Adaptations and Natural History of the Carideans |volume=7 |series=Animal natural history series |publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]] |isbn=978-0-8061-3555-7 |page=206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8YHIsnod3EC&pg=PA206}}</ref> The division between Natantia and Reptantia was replaced in 1963, when [[Martin Burkenroad]] erected the suborder [[Pleocyemata]] for those animals that brood their eggs on the [[pleopod]]s, leaving [[Dendrobranchiata]] for the prawns.<ref name="Bauer"/> Under this system, Natantia is a [[paraphyletic group]]. Burkenroad's primary division of Decapoda into Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata has since been corroborated by [[molecular phylogenetics|molecular analyses]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Alicia Toon |author2=Maegan Finley |author3=Jeffrey Staples |author4=Keith A. Crandall |author-link4=Keith A. Crandall |year=2009 |chapter=Decapod phylogenetics and molecular evolution |pages=9–24 |url=http://crandalllab.byu.edu/Portals/20/docs/publications/Alicia%27sPaper.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120130190539/http://crandalllab.byu.edu/Portals/20/docs/publications/Alicia'sPaper.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-01-30 |editor=Joel W. Martin |title=Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics |publisher=[[CRC Press]] |isbn=978-1-4200-9258-5 |access-date=2011-10-25 }}</ref>

{{Multiple image
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| header = Representatives of three of the groups formerly placed in "Natantia"
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| image1 = Penaeus monodon.jpg
| caption1 = [[Dendrobranchiata]]: ''[[Penaeus monodon]]''
| image2 = Heterocarpus ensifer.jpg
| caption2 = [[Caridea]]: ''[[Heterocarpus ensifer]]''
| image3 = Stenopus hispidus 1.jpg
| caption3 = [[Stenopodidea]]: ''[[Stenopus hispidus]]''
}}

The name Natantia Owen, 1851 was utilized in a phylogenetic context by Madzia and Cau (2017) as the most exclusive mosasaurid clade including ''Mosasaurus'' and ''Tylosaurus'' but not ''Halisaurus''.<ref>OwenR.1851. AhistoryofBritishfossilreptiles.In:SectionII:thefossilReptiliaofthe Cretaceousperiod. London:Cassell&CompanyLimited,155–210.</ref><ref>Madzia and Cau (2017). Inferring ‘weakspots’ in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature. PeerJ5:e3782;DOI10.7717/peerj.3782</ref>

== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal |author=S. De Grave & C. H. J. M. Fransen |year=2011 |title=Carideorum Catalogus: the Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) |journal=[[Zoologische Mededelingen]] |volume=85 |issue=9 |pages=195–589, figs. 1–59 |isbn=978-90-6519-200-4 |url=ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ac477e/ac477e02.pdf}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Decapods]]
[[Category:Obsolete arthropod taxa]]

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