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Grapsoidea  MacLeay, 1838
Taxonomic Serial No.: 206961

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Superfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumCrustacea Brünnich, 1772 – crustacés, crustáceo, crustaceans  
                   ClassMalacostraca Latreille, 1802  
                      SubclassEumalacostraca Grobben, 1892  
                         SuperorderEucarida Calman, 1904 – camarão, caranguejo, ermitão, lagosta, siri  
                            OrderDecapoda Latreille, 1802 – crabs, crayfishes, lobsters, prawns, shrimp, crabes, crevettes, écrevisses, homards  
                               SuborderPleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963  
                                  InfraorderBrachyura Latreille, 1802 – short-tailed crabs, true crabs  
                                     SuperfamilyGrapsoidea MacLeay, 1838  
    Direct Children:  
                                        FamilyGecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 – land crabs 
                                        FamilyGlyptograpsidae Schubart, Cuesta & Felder, 2002  
                                        FamilyGrapsidae MacLeay, 1838 – marsh crabs, shore crabs, talon crabs 
                                        FamilyPlagusiidae Dana, 1851  
                                        FamilySesarmidae Dana, 1851  
                                        FamilyVarunidae Milne Edwards, 1853  
       

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  Source: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 31, pre-press (version 18-May-04)  
  Acquired: 2004   
  Notes: McLaughlin et al. 2005. Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Crustaceans. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 31   
  Reference for: Grapsoidea   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bowman, Thomas E., and Lawrence G. Abele / Lawrence G. Abele, ed. / Dorothy E. Bliss, ed.-in-chief   
  Publication Date: 1982   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 1: Classification of the Recent Crustacea   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Biology of Crustacea, vol. 1: Systematics, the Fossil Record, and Biogeography   
  Page(s): 1-27   
  Publisher: Academic Press   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-12-106401-8   
  Notes: Bliss is Editor-in-Chief of "The Biology of Crustacea" series; Abele is editor of volume 1 of that series (Systematics, the Fossil Record, and Biogeography); Bowman & Abele authored Chapter 1 therein   
  Reference for: Grapsoidea   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Martin, Joel W., and George E. Davis   
  Publication Date: 2001   
  Article/Chapter Title: An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Science Series 39   
  Page(s): 124   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1-891276-27-1   
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Schubart, Christoph D., José A. Cuesta, and Darryl L. Felder   
  Publication Date: 2002   
  Article/Chapter Title: Glyptograpsidae, a new brachyuran family from Central America: larval and adult morphology, and a molecular phylogeny of the Grapsoidea   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Crustacean Biology, vol. 22, no. 1   
  Page(s): 28-44   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0278-0372   
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  Reference for: Grapsoidea   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Schubart, Christoph D., José A. Cuesta, Rudolf Diesel, and Darryl L. Felder   
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title: Molecular Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Evolution of Nonmarine Lineages within the American Grapsoid Crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 15, no. 2   
  Page(s): 179-190   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1055-7903   
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