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Taxonomy of Superfamily Parastacoidea Huxley, 1879
Crayfishes, Southern hemisphere crawfish


Class
 		Malacostraca
Latreille, 1802
Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans		1033
12148
92586		Families
Genera
Species

Subclass
 		Eumalacostraca
Grobben, 1892
995
11546
91261		Families
Genera
Species

Superorder
 		Eucarida
Calman, 1904
379
5045
43294		Families
Genera
Species

Order
 		Decapoda
Latreille, 1802
Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns		376
5018
43105		Families
Genera
Species

Suborder
 		Pleocyemata
Burkenroad, 1963
278
4664
41091		Families
Genera
Species

Infraorder
 		Astacidea
Latreille, 1802
Crayfish, Crayfishes and Lobsters, Lobsters		14
125
1977		Families
Genera
Species

Superfamily
 		Parastacoidea
Huxley, 1879
Crayfishes, Southern hemisphere crawfish		4
43
559		Families
Genera
Species
Subnodes of Parastacoidea Huxley, 1879
FamilyEnoplometopidae
de Saint Laurent, 1988
Reef lobsters		2
20		Genera
Species
FamilyGlypheidae ♰
Zittel, 1885
16
221		Genera
Species
FamilyParastacidae ♰
Huxley, 1879
25
318		Genera
Species
FamilyThaumastochelidae
Bate, 1888
0
0		Genera
Species

Synonyms

Native, vernacular names and spellings of Parastacoidea
EnglishCrayfishes, Southern hemisphere crawfish


Distribution and Species lists of Parastacoidea Huxley, 1879
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Antigua and Barbuda
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesArgentina
2 Families  4 Genera  6 SpeciesAustralia
3 Families  21 Genera  206 SpeciesBahamas
2 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesBelgium
1 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesBrazil
2 Families  4 Genera  13 SpeciesCanada
2 Families  4 Genera  3 SpeciesCape Verde
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesChile
2 Families  4 Genera  11 SpeciesChina
2 Families  2 Genera  8 SpeciesColombia
2 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesCook Islands
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesCuba
1 Family  1 Genus  4 SpeciesCzech Republic
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesDenmark
1 Family  1 Genus  0 SpeciesEast Timor
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesEcuador
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesFiji
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesFrance
3 Families  7 Genera  23 SpeciesGabon
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesGambia
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesGeorgia
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesGermany
2 Families  4 Genera  16 SpeciesGhana
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesGuinea
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesHonduras
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesIndonesia
2 Families  4 Genera  25 SpeciesIsrael
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesItaly
2 Families  3 Genera  6 SpeciesIvory Coast
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesJamaica
1 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesJapan
2 Families  2 Genera  6 SpeciesKenya
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesKiribati
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesLebanon
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesMadagascar
2 Families  3 Genera  12 SpeciesMalaysia
1 Families  2 Genera  4 SpeciesMaldives
1 Family  1 Genus  2 SpeciesMalta
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesMarshall Islands
1 Families  2 Genera  5 SpeciesMauritius
2 Families  3 Genera  4 SpeciesMexico
2 Families  4 Genera  7 SpeciesMicronesia
2 Families  3 Genera  6 SpeciesMorocco
1 Family  1 Genus  38 SpeciesNamibia
1 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesNetherlands
1 Families  4 Genera  12 SpeciesNew Zealand
2 Families  4 Genera  9 SpeciesNorway
1 Families  5 Genera  18 SpeciesPalau
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesPanama
2 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesPapua New Guinea
2 Families  5 Genera  16 SpeciesParaguay
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesPeru
1 Families  3 Genera  5 SpeciesPhilippines
3 Families  4 Genera  9 SpeciesPoland
1 Families  3 Genera  3 SpeciesPortugal
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesRepublic South Africa
2 Families  4 Genera  7 SpeciesSaint Lucia
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesSeychelles
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesSierra Leone
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesSingapore
2 Families  2 Genera  4 SpeciesSlovenia
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesSolomon Islands
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesSpain
3 Families  3 Genera  3 SpeciesSweden
1 Families  4 Genera  8 SpeciesSwitzerland
2 Families  2 Genera  3 SpeciesTaiwan
2 Families  2 Genera  6 SpeciesTanzania
2 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesThailand
1 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesTrinidad and Tobago
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesTunisia
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesUnited Kingdom
2 Families  8 Genera  36 SpeciesUruguay
1 Family  1 Genus  5 SpeciesUSA
3 Families  10 Genera  28 SpeciesVanuatu
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesVietnam
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesZambia
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesZimbabwe
1 Family  1 Genus  1 Species


Distribution on islands
Bathurst Island
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesBruny Island
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesCapricorn Group
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesDunk Island
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesHeron Island
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesIsla Victoria
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesIslands of Chile
1 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesMacaronesia
1 Families  2 Genera  2 SpeciesMoa Island
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesStradbroke Island
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesTernate
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesWellington
1 Family  1 Genus  1 Species


Found in fossile formations
London Clay Formation
1 Family  1 Genus  1 SpeciesWellington Formation
1 Family  1 Genus  1 Species


Links, sources and further information
Parastacoidea at artfakta.se
Parastacoidea at biodiversity.org.au
Parastacoidea at itis.gov