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Ocypodoidea

The Ocypodoidea, or ocypoid crabs, are a superfamily of crabs, named after the genus Ocypode. It contains the following families:Camptandriidae Stimpson, 1858 Dotillidae Stimpson, 1858 Heloeciidae H. Milne-Edwards, 1852 Macrophthalmidae Dana, 1851 Mictyridae Dana, 1851 Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 Xenophthalmidae Stimpson, 1858

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Ocypodoidea
Ocypode cordimana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
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 the following families:12

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  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 2010-04-21.
  2. Boyko, Christopher B. (5 September 2022). "Ocypodoidea Rafinesque, 1815". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 October 2024.