“…Most other malacostracans have superficial cleavage and the mesoderm is positioned anterior of the endoderm. Data are based on ( A ) the malacostracan amphipod Parhyale , ( B ) thecostracan barnacles (Bigelow 1902 ;Shiino 1957 ), ( C ) the malacostracan shrimps (Kajishima 1952 ;Hertzler 2002 ), ( D ) a copepod (Fuchs 1914 ; the relationship between the anterior-posterior axis and the endoderm and germ line that is shown here is modeled after other crustaceans), and ( E ) branchiopodan water fl eas (Grobben 1879 ;Kühn 1913 ) Copepoda, Cirripedia, Dendrobranchiata, and Amphipoda sit dispersed within the crustacean's phylogenetic tree, and the taxa in between show superfi cial cleavage. The taxa with invariant early lineages sit nested within taxa that lack this trait, and assuming multiple origins requires fewer steps than the opposite assumption of a single origin.…”