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

Axiidae Huxley, 1879

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Calocaridae*	Ortmann, 1891	synonym
*Calocarididae*	Ortmann, 1891	synonym

Children

Axius Leach, 1816
Calastacus Faxon, 1893
Calocarides Wollebaek, 1908
Calocaris Bell, 1846
Eiconaxius Spence Bate, 1888
Levantocaris Galil & Clark, 1993

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: アナエビ科

Literature

original description	Huxley, T.H. (1879). On the classification and the distribution of the crayfishes. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London. 1878(3): 752-788.
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.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
status source	ICZN. (1964). Opinion 712. Forty-seven genera of decapod Crustacea: placed on the Official List. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 21, 336-354.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Axiidae Huxley, 1879. 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:106798