Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata

Caridea Dana, 1852

Rank: Infraorder
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Infraorder group names

*Amphionidacea*	Williamson, 1973	synonym

Children

Alpheoidea Rafinesque, 1815
Atyoidea De Haan, 1849
Bresilioidea Calman, 1896
Campylonotoidea Sollaud, 1913
Caridea incertae sedis
Crangonoidea Haworth, 1825
Nematocarcinoidea Smith, 1884
Oplophoroidea Dana, 1852
Palaemonoidea Rafinesque, 1815
Pandaloidea Haworth, 1825
Pasiphaeoidea Dana, 1852
Processoidea Ortmann, 1896
Stylodactyloidea Spence Bate, 1888
Typhlocarididae

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: garnalen

English: shrimps

Japanese: コエビ下目 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: äkta räkor

Literature

original description	Dana, J. D. (1852). Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. C. Wilkes, U.S.N. Paguridea, continued, Megalopidea and Macroura. The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series. 14: 116-125.
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.