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

Enoplometopidae de Saint Laurent, 1988

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Enoplometopus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862
Hoplometopus Holthuis, 1983

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ショウグンエビ科

Literature

original description	de Saint Laurent, M. (1988). Enoplometopoidea, nouvelle superfamille de crustacés décapodes Astacidea. Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, 3 sér. 307: 59-62.
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	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	Chang, S.-C. & Chan, T.-Y. (2022). Multigene phylogeny of reef lobsters of the family Enoplometopidae (Decapoda: Crustacea). Invertebrate Systematics. 36(11): 973–983.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Enoplometopidae de Saint Laurent, 1988. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106740