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

Astacidea Latreille, 1802

Rank: Infraorder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Astacoidea Latreille, 1802
Enoplometopoidea de Saint Laurent, 1988
Nephropoidea Dana, 1852
Parastacidae

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: kreeften

English: crawfish; crayfish; lobsters; yabbies sources: Crandall, K.A.; De Grave, S. (2017). An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37: 615-653.

Japanese: ザリガニ下目

Literature

original description	Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 14 vols.:413 pp.
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	Chan, T.-Y. (2010). Annotated Checklist of the World's Marine Lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Astacidea, Glypheidea, Achelata, Polychelida). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 23: 153–181.
additional source	Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp.
additional source	Bracken-Grissom, H. D.; Ahyong, S. T.; Wilkinson, R. D.; Feldmann, R. M.; Schweitzer, C. E.; Breinholt, J. W.; Bendall, M.; Palero, F.; Chan, T.-Y.; Felder, D. L.; Robles, R.; Chu, K.-H.; Tsang, L.-M.; Kim, D.; Martin, J. W.; Crandall, K. A. (2014). The Emergence of Lobsters: Phylogenetic Relationships, Morphological Evolution and Divergence Time Comparisons of an Ancient Group (Decapoda: Achelata, Astacidea, Glypheidea, Polychelida). Systematic Biology. 63(4): 457-479.
additional source	Crandall, K. A.; Harris, D. J.; Fetzner, J. W. (2000). The monophyletic origin of freshwater crayfish estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 267(1453): 1679-1686.
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.
taxonomy source	Poore, G. C. B. (2016). The names of the higher taxa of Crustacea Decapoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36, 248-255.