aspidophora

from The Century Dictionary.

• In Latreille's system of classification, a section of his phyllopodous branchiopods, containing the genera Apus and Lepidurus, and equivalent to the modern family Apodidæ of the order Phyllopoda. Also Aspidiphora. See Podostomata.
• In Allman's system of classification, a suborder of polyzoans constituted for the reception of Rhabdopleura.