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

Achelata Scholtz & Richter, 1995

Rank: Infraorder
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Infraorder group names

Palinuroidea Latreille, 1802 synonym

Children

Palinuridae Latreille, 1802
Scyllaridae Latreille, 1825

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: bugs; spiny lobsters

Literature

original description

Scholtz, G.; Richter, S. (1995). Phylogenetic systematics of the reptantian Decapoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113(3): 289-328.

basis of record

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.

taxonomy source

Poore, G. C. B. (2016). The names of the higher taxa of Crustacea Decapoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36, 248-255.

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Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Achelata. 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:383017

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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Last modified

2015-10-13 by Gary C.B. Poore

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