NOMEN: Branchiata Lang 1888 [A. Lang. Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie. – Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1888: 1-1197]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Lang 1888):  Eucrustacea (= "Crustacea") + Trilobita + Gigantostraca + Hemiaspidae + Xiphosura + Pantopoda

SENIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:
= Carides Haeckel 1866

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Cancer/fg (incl. Calymene, Limulus, Pycnogonum)

TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: 

MODERN STATUS: a widely used (while not the oldert) name of on-accepted, paraphyletic taxon.

HOMONYMS (according to Agassiz 1848):

Branchiata Bonap., 1831 (in Pisces);
Branchiata Fitz., 1843 (in Reptilia);
Branchiata Fitz., 1833 (in Mollusca).