| Palaemonoidea | |
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| Palaemon elegans (Palaemonidae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Superfamily: | Palaemonoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
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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
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Hymenocera picta, the only Hymenoceridae -
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References
References
- 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.
- 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.