NOMEN: Decapoda Latreille 1802: T.1:341; T.3:20 [P.A. Latreille. Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere des Crustacés et des Insectes. 1802]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Latreille 1802:
T.3):
Cancer + Dromia + Hepatus + Portunus +
Ocypoda + Podophthalmus + Porcellana +
Pinnotheres + Maja + Leucosia + Corystes +
Dorippe + Orythia + Ranina + Pagurus +
Albunea + Hippa + Scyllarus + Palinurus +
Galathea + Astacus + Alpheus + Penaeus +
Palaemon 
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Thoracica Blainville 1816
= Eubranchiata Dana 1852
= Decapodida Pearce 1936
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Cancer/fg (sine Euphausia; incl. Penaeus)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE:
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.