| Tactopoda | |
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| The tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini | |
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| The blue crab Callinectes sapidus, an arthropod | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | ParaHoxozoa |
| Clade: | Bilateria |
| Clade: | Nephrozoa |
| Clade: | Protostomia |
| Superphylum: | Ecdysozoa |
| Clade: | Panarthropoda |
| (unranked): | Tactopoda Budd, 2001 |
| Phyla | |
Tactopods are members of a proposed clade of ecdysozoans called Tactopoda. Various studies support the tactopods. This group is the opposite of the now unused proposed group Antennopoda which grouped arthropoda with velvet worms instead of tarnigrades.
