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

Munididae Ahyong, Baba, Macpherson & Poore, 2010

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Dactylonida Macpherson & Baba in Machordom, Ahyong, Andreakis, Baba, Buckley, Garcia-Jimenez, McCallum, Rodríguez-Flores & Macpherson, 2022
Iridonida Macpherson & Baba in Machordom, Ahyong, Andreakis, Baba, Buckley, Garcia-Jimenez, McCallum, Rodríguez-Flores & Macpherson, 2022
Munida Leach, 1821
Typhlonida Macpherson & Baba in Machordom, Ahyong, Andreakis, Baba, Buckley, Garcia-Jimenez, McCallum, Rodríguez-Flores & Macpherson, 2022

Literature

original description	Ahyong, S.T., Baba, K., Macpherson, E. & Poore, G.C.B. (2010). A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Zootaxa. 2676: 57–68.
additional source	Machordom, A.; Ahyong, S. T.; Andreakis, N.; Baba, K.; Buckley, D.; García-Jiménez, R.; McCallum, A. W.; Rodríguez-Flores, P. C.; Macpherson, E. (2022). Deconstructing the crustacean squat lobster genus Munida to reconstruct the evolutionary history and systematics of the family Munididae (Decapoda, Anomura, Galatheoidea). Invertebrate Systematics. 36(10): 92970.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Munididae Ahyong, Baba, Macpherson & Poore, 2010. 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:562645