Palaemonoidea

Palaemonoidea
Palaemon elegans (Palaemonidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
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]

• Anchistioididae Borradaile, 1915
• Desmocarididae Borradaile, 1915
• Euryrhynchidae Holthuis, 1950
• Gnathophyllidae Dana, 1852
• Hymenoceridae Ortmann, 1890
• Kakaducarididae Bruce, 1993
• Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815
• Typhlocarididae Annandale & Kemp, 1913

• 
  Gnathophyllum americanum , a Palaemonidae
• 
  Hymenocera picta , the only Hymenoceridae
• 
  Periclimenes imperator , a Palaemonidae
• 
  Typhlocaris ayyaloni , a Typhlocarididae

See also

• Palaemon modestus

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. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
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 (eds.). Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. Crustacean issues. Vol. 18. CRC Press. pp. 281–305. ISBN   978-1-4200-9258-5.