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.
The
cladogram below shows Procarididea's relationships to other relatives within
Decapoda
The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and prawns. Most decapods are scavengers. The order is esti ...
, from analysis by Wolfe ''et al.'', 2019.
References
Decapods
Arthropod infraorders
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