Astacoidea

Astacoidea is superfamily of freshwater crayfish that live in the Northern Hemisphere. The other superfamily of crayfish, Parastacoidea, lives in the Southern Hemisphere. Astacoidea consists of three families: Astacidae (from Europe and western North America), Cambaridae (from eastern North America), and Cambaroididae (from eastern Asia). Crayfish are closely related to lobsters, as shown in the simplified cladogram below.^[1][2][3]

Astacidea	clawed lobsters Enoplometopoidea Enoplometopidae Nephropoidea Nephropidae crayfish Parastacoidea Parastacidae Astacoidea Cambaroididae Astacidae Cambaridae

Astacoidea Temporal range: 228–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Triassic - present
Austropotamobius pallipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Astacidea
Superfamily:	Astacoidea Latreille, 1802
Families
Astacidae Latreille, 1802 Cambaridae Hobbs, 1942 Cambaroididae Villalobos, 1955