{{Short description|Suborder of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Eurydice_affinis.jpg | image_caption = ''Eurydice affinis'' | taxon = Flabellifera | authority = Sars, 1882&nbsp;<ref>{{ITIS |id=92224 |taxon=Flabellifera |accessdate=July 6, 2011}}</ref> }}

'''Flabellifera''' is a former suborder of isopod crustaceans. It is a polyphyletic or paraphyletic group, and contained over 3000 species.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/www/flabelli.htm |title=Flabellifera |publisher=Australian Museum |author=J. K. Lowry |work=Crustacea: The Higher Taxa |date=November 2, 1999 |accessdate=July 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213163642/http://crustacea.net/crustace/www/flabelli.htm |archive-date=December 13, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=4175 |title=Suborder Flabellifera |work=Guide to the Coastal Marine Isopods of California |author=Richard Brusca, Vania R. Coelho & Stefano Taiti |accessdate=January 28, 2009 |publisher=Tree of Life Web Project}}</ref> Its members are now placed in the Sphaeromatidea and Cymothoida.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships |author=Angelika Brandt & Gary C. B. Poore |journal=Invertebrate Systematics |volume=17 |issue=6 |pages=893–923 |year=2003 |doi=10.1071/IS02032}}</ref>

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