Procaridoidea

Procaridoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Procarididea
Felgenhauer & Abele, 1983
Superfamily: Procaridoidea
Chace & Manning, 1972
Genera
  • Procaris Chace & Manning, 1972
  • Vetericaris Kensley & Williams, 1986
  • Udora Münster, 1839

Procaridoidea is a superfamily of shrimp, comprising only eleven species. Six of these are in the genera Procaris and Vetericaris, which together make up the family Procarididae. The remaining five species are only known from fossils and belong to the genus Udora, which cannot yet be assigned to any family.[1] Use of molecular phylogenetics suggests that Procaridoidea is the sister group to the remaining Caridea, and may therefore warrant recognition as a separate infraorder, Procarididea.[2]

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. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf. 
  2. ^ Heather D. Bracken, Sammy De Grave, Alicia Toon, Darryl L. Felder & Keith A. Crandall (2010). "Phylogenetic position, systematic status, and divergence time of the Procarididea (Crustacea: Decapoda)". Zoologica Scripta 39 (2): 198–212. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00410.x. 
Superfamilies in infraorder Caridea
Kingdom Animalia · Phylum Arthropoda · Subphylum Crustacea · Class Malacostraca · Order Decapoda · Suborder Pleocyemata