Infraclass Neocopepoda Huys and Boxshall, 1991
Copepoda. Female genital apertures located anteriorly on genital somite. Ancestral antennulary segments XXVII and XXVIII fused in both sexes. Male antennule sexually dimorphic with functional geniculation between ancestral segments XX and XXI. Maxillule without lobate exite on basis. Basis of legs 2-5 with maximum of 1 outer spine on proximal exopod segment. Proximal segment (if expressed) of leg 5 exopod without inner seta.
Huys and Boxshall, 1991