Laomediidae is a
family
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of
crustaceans
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...
belonging to the
infraorder
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Gebiidea
Gebiidea is an infraorder of decapod crustaceans. Gebiidea and Axiidea are divergent infraoders of the former infraorder Thalassinidea. These infraorders have converged ecologically and morphologically as burrowing forms.Dworschak, Peter C. ( ...
, within the
order Decapoda.
It contains the following
genera:
* ''
Jaxea''
Nardo, 1847
* ''
Laomedia''
De Haan, 1841
* ''
Naushonia''
Kingsley, 1897
* ''
Reschia''
Schweigert, 2009
* ''
Saintlaurentiella''
Paiva, Tavares & Silva-Neto, 2010
* ''
Strianassa''
Anker, 2020
References
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Decapods
Decapod families