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

Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Polychelinae Wood-Mason, 1874

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: センジュエビ科

Literature

original description	Wood-Mason, J. (1874). [...on Blind Crustacea]. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 1874: 180-181.
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	Galil, B.S. (2000). Crustacea Decapoda: review of the genera and species of the family Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874. In: Crosnier, A. (ed.) (2000). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 21. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, A (Zoologie). 184: 285–387.
additional source	Ahyong, S.T. (2009). The polychelidan lobsters: phylogeny and systematics (Polychelida: Polychelidae). Crustacean Issues. 18: 369–396.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874. 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:106793