Ocypodoidea

Superfamily of crabs

Ocypodoidea
Ocypode cordimana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Thoracotremata
Superfamily: Ocypodoidea
Rafinesque, 1815

The Ocypodoidea, or ocypoid crabs, are a superfamily of crabs, named after the genus Ocypode. It contains over 300 extant species in these eight families:[1]

  • Camptandriidae Stimpson, 1858
  • Dotillidae Stimpson, 1858
  • Heloeciidae H. Milne-Edwards, 1852
  • Macrophthalmidae Dana, 1851
  • Mictyridae Dana, 1851
  • Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815
  • Ucididae Števčić, 2005
  • Xenophthalmidae Stimpson, 1858

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.
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Ocypodoidea
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