Astacidea

Astacidea
Temporal range: Middle Permian - present
Adriatic lobster
Crayfish: Austropotamobius pallipes
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
(unranked): Reptantia
Infraorder: Astacidea
Latreille, 1802
Superfamilies
  • Astacoidea
  • Enoplometopoidea
  • Nephropoidea
  • Palaeopalaemonoidea
  • Parastacoidea

Astacidea is an infraorder of decapod crustaceans including lobsters (though not "lobsters" such as the spiny lobster etc.), crayfish, and their close relatives.

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