Penaeoidea
| Penaeoidea Temporal range: Famennian–Recent | |
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| Litopenaeus vannamei | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Superfamily: | Penaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
Penaeoidea is the larger of the two superfamilies of prawns. It comprises eight families, three of which are known only from fossils.[1][2] The fossil record of the group stretches back to Aciculopoda, discovered in Famennian sediments in Oklahoma.[2]
- † Aciculopodidae (1 genus, 1 species)
- † Aegeridae (2 genera, 25 species)
- Aristeidae (10 genera, 28 species)
- Benthesicymidae (5 genera, 43 species)
- † Carpopenaeidae (1 genus, 3 species)
- Penaeidae (48 genera, 286 species)
- Sicyoniidae (1 genus, 53 species)
- Solenoceridae (9 genera, 86 species)
See also
References
| External identifiers for Penaeoidea | |
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| Encyclopedia of Life | 1226 |
| ITIS | 95601 |
| NCBI | 111520 |
| WoRMS | 106683 |
| Also found in: Wikispecies, ADW | |
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rodney Feldmann & Carrie Schweitzer (2010). "The oldest shrimp (Devonian: Famennian) and remarkable preservation of soft tissue". Journal of Crustacean Biology 30 (4): 629–635. doi:10.1651/09-3268.1.