Glypheidea

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Glypheidea
Temporal range: Early Triassic–Recent
fossil Mecochirus longimanatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
(unranked): Reptantia
Infraorder: Glypheidea
Winckler, 1882
Superfamilies
  • Glypheoidea Winckler, 1882
  • Erymoidea
    Van Straelen, 1924

Glypheidea is an

Neoglyphea inopinata, was discovered in 1975. They are now considered "living fossils", with over 256 fossil species discovered, and just two extant species.[2]

Phylogeny

Glypheidea belongs to the

phylogenetic studies consider Glypheidea to be most closely related to the infraorder Astacidea, which consists of the lobsters and crayfish,[2] whereas other studies instead consider Glypheidea to be more closely related to the infraorder Polychelida, a group of deep-sea blind lobsters.[3]

Taxonomy

Glypheoidea Winckler, 1882
† Erymoidea Van Straelen, 1924

References

  1. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
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