Palaemonoidea

Palaemonoidea
Palaemon elegans (Palaemonidae)
Scientific classification
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]



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. Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. Crustacean issues 18. CRC Press. pp. 281–305. ISBN 978-1-4200-9258-5.