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Goneplacoidea

Goneplacoidea is a superfamily of crabs containing 11 extant families, and two families known only from fossils.Acidopsidae † Carinocarcinoididae Chasmocarcinidae Conleyidae Euryplacidae Goneplacidae Litocheiridae † Martinocarcinidae Mathildellidae Progeryonidae Scalopidiidae Sotoplacidae Vultocinidae

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Goneplacoidea
Goneplax rhomboides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Clade: Reptantia
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Goneplacoidea
Macleay, 1838

Goneplacoidea is a superfamily of crabs containing 11 extant families,12 and two families known only from fossils (marked "†").3

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References

  1. WoRMS. "Goneplacoidea MacLeay, 1838". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. Peter Castro, Danièle Guinot & Peter K. L. Ng (2010). "A new family for Sotoplax robertsi Guinot, 1984, with a diagnosis and key to the Goneplacoidea Macleay, 1838 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2356: 36–56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2356.1.2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-01. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  3. 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.