Gecarcinucoidea

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Gecarcinucoidea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Gecarcinucoidea
Rathbun, 1904  [1]
Families

Gecarcinucoidea is a superfamily of freshwater crabs. Its members have been grouped into families in various ways, with some authors recognizing families such as "Deckeniidae", "Sundathelphusidae", and "Parathelphusidae", [2] but now only the family Gecarcinucidae is currently recognized. [3] [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Gecarcinucoidea Rathbun, 1904". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved February 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Gecarcinucidae {family}". Barcode of Life Systems (BOLD). Retrieved 5 June 2016.


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