Nephropoidea
| Nephropoidea Temporal range:Middle Permian- present
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| Nephropsis rosea | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Astacidea |
| Superfamily: | Nephropoidea Dana,1852 |
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Nephropoideais asuperfamilyofdecapodcrustaceans.It contains the true lobsters in theNephropidae(including the rarethaumastochelidlobsters), and three fossil families:Chilenophoberidae,ProtastacidaeandStenochiridae.[1]Their closest relatives are thereef lobsters.[1]
References
[edit]- ^abSammy 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 fromthe original(PDF)on August 5, 2012.
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| Pleocyemata |
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