Canadian Register of Marine Species

WoRMS name details

Macrura

AphiaID

856793 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:856793)

Classification

Authority

Latreille, 1802

Status

unaccepted (previously applied to all the long-tailed taxa, shrimps and lobsters)

Rank

Suborder

Parent

Decapoda

Direct children (8)

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Infraorder Anomala (more or less equivalent to Anomura)
Infraorder Eryonidea accepted as Polychelida
Infraorder Loricata (accepted as Galatheidae, Munididae, Scyllaridae, Palinuridae )
Infraorder Palinura (accepted as Achelata, Polychelida )
Infraorder Phyllobranchiata (accepted as Anomura, Caridea )
Infraorder Scyllaridea (accepted as Scyllaridae, Palinuridae )
Infraorder Thalassinidea (accepted as Gebiidea and Axiidea)
Infraorder Trichobranchiata (accepted as Galatheidae, Pylochelidae, Thalassinidae, Callianassidae, Axiidae, Thaumastochelidae, Palinuridae, Scyllaridae, Homaridae, Astacidae, Stenopodidae)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh

Original description

Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 14 vols.:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876 [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Macrura. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=856793 on 2025-05-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-10-14 04:24:12Z

created

Poore, Gary C.B.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 14 vols.:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876 [details]

basis of record Meyer, R. (2014). Integrative taxonomy of decapod crustaceans with traditional and modern methods. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty of Biology., available online at https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17091/1/Meyer_Roland.pdf [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Poore, G. C. B. (2016). The names of the higher taxa of Crustacea Decapoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36, 248-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/1937240X-00002415 [details] Available for editors

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Introduced: alien

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