Dorippoidea
| Dorippoidea Temporal range:
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| Paradorippe granulata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Subsection: | Heterotremata |
| Superfamily: | Dorippoidea Macleay, 1838 |
| Families | |
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Dorippoidea is a superfamily of crabs.[1] The earliest fossils attributable to the Dorippoidea date from the Late Cretaceous.[2]
Dorippoidea contains the following families:[3][4]
- Dorippidae Macleay, 1838
- Ethusidae Guinot, 1977
- †Goniochelidae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2011
- †Telamonocarcinidae Larghi, 2004
- †Tepexicarcinidae (?) Luque, 2015
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.
- ^ Andreas Brösing (2008). "A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary" (PDF). Crustaceana. 81 (3): 271–287. Bibcode:2008Crust..81..271B. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.652.1701. doi:10.1163/156854008783564091.
- ^ "Dorippoidea MacLeay, 1838". World Register of Marine Species. 2025. Retrieved Oct 9, 2025.
- ^ "Dorippoidea MacLeay, 1838". Marine Species Traits. 2025. Retrieved Oct 9, 2025.