Palaemonoidea

Short description: Superfamily of shrimp

Palaemonoidea

Palaemon elegans (Palaemonidae)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Crustacea
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 et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf.
2. ↑ Heather D. Bracken, Sammy De Grave & Darryl L. Felder (2009). "Phylogeny of the infraorder Caridea based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes (Crustacea: Decapoda)". Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. Crustacean issues. 18. CRC Press. pp. 281–305. ISBN 978-1-4200-9258-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=Bxs6SgSW2kQC&pg=PA295.

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