Palaemonoidea

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Palaemonoidea
Palaemon elegans1.jpg
Palaemon elegans (Palaemonidae)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Caridea
Superfamily: Palaemonoidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Families

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Palaemonoidea is a large superfamily of shrimp, containing nearly 1,000 species.[1] The position of the family Typhlocarididae is unclear, although the monophyly of a group containing the remaining seven families is well supported.[2]

  • Anchistioididae Borradaile, 1915
  • Desmocarididae Borradaile, 1915
  • Euryrhynchidae Holthuis, 1950
  • Gnathophyllidae Dana, 1852
  • Hymenoceridae Ortmann, 1890
  • Kakaducarididae Bruce, 1993
  • Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815
  • Typhlocarididae Annandale & Kemp, 1913

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References[]

  1. ^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
  2. ^ Heather D. Bracken, Sammy De Grave & Darryl L. Felder (2009). "Phylogeny of the infraorder Caridea based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes (Crustacea: Decapoda)". In Joel W. Martin; Keith A. Crandall; Darryl L. Felder (eds.). Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. Crustacean issues. 18. CRC Press. pp. 281–305. ISBN 978-1-4200-9258-5.
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