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Decapoda
Latreille, 1802
- decapods
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Natura - nature
..Mundus - physical world
....Naturalia - natural bodies
......Biota
........Domain Eukaryota - eukaryotes
..........Unikonta
............Opisthokonta
..............Holozoa
................Kingdom Animalia - animals
..................Epitheliozoa
....................Eumetazoa - eumetazoans
......................Bilateria - bilaterians
........................Eubilateria
..........................Protostomia
............................Ecdysozoa - ecdysozoans
..............................Superphylum Panarthropoda
................................Phylum Arthropoda - arthropods
..................................Euarthropoda
....................................Mandibulata
......................................Crustaceomorpha
........................................Labrophora
..........................................Subphylum Pancrustacea
............................................Altocrustacea
..............................................Vericrustacea
................................................Multicrustacea
..................................................Communostraca
....................................................Class Malacostraca
......................................................Subclass Eumalacostraca
........................................................Superorder Eucarida
..........................................................Order Amphionidacea - amphionidaceans
..........................................................Order Euphausiacea - krill
..........................................................Order Decapoda - decapods
............................................................Genus Astacopsis
............................................................Genus Austinograea
............................................................Genus Bythograea
............................................................Genus †Cretachlorodius
............................................................Genus Cyanograea
............................................................Genus †Prehepatus
............................................................Suborder Dendrobranchiata
............................................................Suborder Macrura Reptantia
............................................................Suborder Pleocyemata
............................................................»Family Albuneidae
............................................................»Family Alpheidae
............................................................»Family Alvinocarididae
............................................................»Family Amphionididae
............................................................»Family Aristeidae
............................................................»Family Atelecyclidae
............................................................»Family Axiidae
............................................................»Family Bathypalaemonellidae
............................................................»Family Benthesicymidae
............................................................»Family Bresiliidae
............................................................»Family Bythograeidae
............................................................»Family Calappidae
............................................................»Family Callianassidae
............................................................»Family Calocarididae
............................................................»Family Cancridae
............................................................»Family Carcinoplacidae
............................................................»Family Chirostylidae
............................................................»Family Corystidae
............................................................»Family Crangonidae
............................................................»Family Cryptochiridae
............................................................»Family Ctenochelidae
............................................................»Family Cymonomidae
............................................................»Family Diogenidae
............................................................»Family Dorippidae
............................................................»Family Dromiidae
............................................................»Family Eriphiidae
............................................................»Family Euryplacidae
............................................................»Family Galatheidae - galatheid crabs
............................................................»Family Geryonidae
............................................................»Family Glyphocrangonidae
............................................................»Family Gnathophyllidae
............................................................»Family Goneplacidae
............................................................»Family Grapsidae
............................................................»Family Hippolytidae
............................................................»Family Homolidae
............................................................»Family Homolodromiidae
............................................................»Family Laomediidae
............................................................»Family Latreilliidae
............................................................»Family Leucosiidae
............................................................»Family Lithodidae
............................................................»Family Luciferidae
............................................................»Family Majidae
............................................................»Family Matutidae
............................................................»Family Nematocarcinidae
............................................................»Family Nephropidae
............................................................»Family Ocypodidae
............................................................»Family Ogyrididae
............................................................»Family Oplophoridae
............................................................»Family Paguridae
............................................................»Family Palaemonidae
............................................................»Family Palicidae
............................................................»Family Palinuridae - palinurid lobsters
............................................................»Family Pandalidae
............................................................»Family Panopeidae
............................................................»Family Parapaguridae
............................................................»Family Parthenopidae
............................................................»Family Pasiphaeidae
............................................................»Family Penaeidae - penaeid shrimps
............................................................»Family Pilumnidae
............................................................»Family Pilumnoididae
............................................................»Family Pinnotheridae
............................................................»Family Pirimelidae
............................................................»Family Polychelidae
............................................................»Family Porcellanidae
............................................................»Family Portunidae
............................................................»Family Processidae
............................................................»Family Raninidae
............................................................»Family Rhynchocinetidae
............................................................»Family Scyllaridae
............................................................»Family Sergestidae - sergestid shrimps
............................................................»Family Sicyoniidae
............................................................»Family Solenoceridae
............................................................»Family Spongicolidae
............................................................»Family Stenopodidae - stenopodid shrimps
............................................................»Family Stylodactylidae
............................................................»Family Thiidae
............................................................»Family Trapeziidae
............................................................»Family Upogebiidae
............................................................»Family Xanthidae
............................................................(Suborder Natantia) - swimming decapods
............................................................(Suborder Reptantia) - walking decapods
............................................................»(Family Enoplometopodidae)
Paleontology
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Late Devonian
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Present
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Herbivore
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Freshwater
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Ecology/Strategies
Feeding strategy
:
Ambush predation
Feeding strategy
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Grazing predation
Feeding strategy
:
Raptorial predation
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Last updated: 7 Apr 2012