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

Astacoidea Latreille, 1802

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Astacidae Latreille, 1802
Cambaridae Hobbs, 1942

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: crayfishes

Japanese: ザリガニ上科

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	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.
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	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.
taxonomy 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	De Grave, S., N.D. Pentcheff, S.T. Ahyong, T.-Y. Chan, K.A. Crandall, P.C. Dworschak, D.L. Felder, R.M. Feldmann, C.H.J.M. Fransen, L.Y.D. Goulding, R. Lemaitre, M.E.Y. Low, J.W. Martin, P.K.L. Ng, C.E. Schweitzer, S.H. Tan & R. Wetzer. (2009). A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1-109.