Sergestidae

Sergestidae
Temporal range: Bathonian–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Superfamily: Sergestoidea
Family: Sergestidae
Dana, 1852
Genera

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Sergestidae is a family of prawns which have lived since at least the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian/Bathonian).[1] It contains the following genera:[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sergio Bravi, Alessandro Garassino, Antonello Bartiromo, Denis Audo, Sylvain Charbonnier, Günter Schweigert, Frédéric Thévenard and Cristiano Longobardi (2014). "Middle Jurassic Monte Fallano Plattenkalk (Campania, southern Italy): first report on terrestrial plants, decapod crustaceans and fishes". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 272 (1): 79–107. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0398.
  2. 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.