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Infraorder of crustaceans From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Procarididea
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Procarididea is an infraorder of decapods, comprising only eleven species. Six of these are in the genera Procaris and Vetericaris, which together make up the family Procarididae. The remaining five species are only known from fossils and belong to the genus Udora, which cannot yet be assigned to any family.[1]

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The cladogram below shows Procarididea's relationships to other relatives within Decapoda, from analysis by Wolfe et al., 2019.[2]

 Decapoda 
    

Dendrobranchiata (prawns)

 Pleocyemata 

Stenopodidea (boxer shrimp)

Procarididea

Caridea ("true" shrimp)

 

 Reptantia 

Achelata (spiny lobsters and slipper lobsters)

Polychelida (benthic crustaceans)

Astacidea (lobsters and crayfish)

Axiidea (mud shrimp, ghost shrimp, and burrowing shrimp)

Gebiidea (mud lobsters and mud shrimp)

Anomura (hermit crabs and allies)

Brachyura ("true" crabs)

(crawling / 
walking 
decapods)
 
 
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