Species list, Checklist of Infraorder Astacidea (Crayfish) for Vanuatu (Melanesia)

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Checklist for Infraorder Astacidea Latreille, 1802 (Crayfish)
and region Vanuatu (Melanesia)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	109 351 740	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	109 351 740	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	90 316 704	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	90 316 704	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	86 305 692	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Astacidea Latreille, 1802 Crayfish, Crayfishes and Lobsters, Lobsters	2 3 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Vanuatu
2 Families width 4 Species

Nephropidae Dana, 1852	Clawed Lobster	3	Species	Taxom
Parastacidae Huxley, 1879		1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Vanuatu
3 Genera with 4 Species

Species list for Vanuatu
4 Species

Acanthacaris tenuimana Bate, 1888	Prickly deep-sea lobster
Engaeus mallacoota Horwitz, 1990	Mallacoota burrowing crayfish
Nephropsis acanthura Macpherson, 1990	Spinetail Lobsterette
Nephropsis sulcata Macpherson, 1990	Grooved Lobsterette

Subnodes of Astacidea with occurrences in Vanuatu

Superfamily	Nephropoidea Dana, 1852	1 2 3	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Parastacoidea Huxley, 1879 Crayfishes, Southern hemisphere crawfish	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Astacidea at artfakta.se
Astacidea at biodiversity.org.au
Astacidea at dyntaxa.se
Astacidea at itis.gov
Astacidea at marinespecies.org