Carpilioidea

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Carpilioidea
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
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Carpilius maculatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
(unranked): Reptantia
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Carpilioidea
(Ortmann, 1893)
Families
  • Arabicarcinidae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2017
  • Carpiliidae Ortmann, 1893
  • Paleoxanthopsidae Schweitzer, 2003
  • Tumidocarcinidae Schweitzer, 2005
  • Zanthopsidae Vía Boada, 1959
Harpactoxanthopsis quadrilobata fossil, Middle Eocene, Venetia Region, northern Italy Harpactoxanthopsis quadrilobata fossil crab IT.jpg
Harpactoxanthopsis quadrilobata fossil, Middle Eocene, Venetia Region, northern Italy

Carpilioidea is a superfamily of crabs containing a single extant family, Carpiliidae and four extinct families. [1] [2] The modern range of the family includes the Indo-Pacific, Western Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. [3] The fossil record of the group extends back at least as far as the Paleocene. [4]

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Genera

ArabicarcinidaeSchweitzer & Feldmann, 2017

CarpiliidaeOrtmann, 1893

PaleoxanthopsidaeSchweitzer, 2003

TumidocarcinidaeSchweitzer, 2005

ZanthopsidaeVía Boada, 1959

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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  2. Ahyong, Shane T. (21 July 2024). "Carpilioidea Ortmann, 1893". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  3. Carrie E. Schweitzer (2000). "Tertiary Xanthoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the west coast of North America". Journal of Crustacean Biology . 20 (4): 715–742. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2000)020[0715:TXCDBF]2.0.CO;2.
  4. Carrie E. Schweitzer; Rodney M. Feldmann; Iuliana Lazăr (2009). "Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum . 35: 1–14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12.