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

Axiidea de Saint Laurent, 1979

Rank: Infraorder
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Infraorder group names

*Axioidea*	Huxley, 1879	synonym

Children

Axiidae Huxley, 1879
Callianassidae Dana, 1852
Callichiridae Manning & Felder, 1991
Ctenochelidae Manning & Felder, 1991
Eucalliacidae Manning & Felder, 1991

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: ghost shrimps; mud lobsters

Japanese: アナエビ下目

Literature

original description	de Saint Laurent, M. (1979). Vers une nouvelle classification des Crustacés Décapodes Reptantia. Bulletin de l'Office Nationale de Pêche de Tunisie. 3, 15-31.
additional source	Robles, R., Tudge, C.C., Dworschak, P.D., Poore, G.C.B. & Felder, D.L. (2009) Molecular phylogeny of the Thalassinidea based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes. In: Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. (Eds.) Crustacean Issues Vol. 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. CRC Press, Bocan Raton, pp. 309-326.
taxonomy source	Poore, G. C. B. (2016). The names of the higher taxa of Crustacea Decapoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36, 248-255.
identification resource	Poore, G.C.B., Dworschak, P.C., Robles, R., Mantelatto, F.L. & Felder, D.L. (2019). A new classification of Callianassidae and related families (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) derived from a molecular phylogeny with morphological support. Memoirs of Museum Victoria,. 78, 73–146.