Superfamily
Grapsoidea (Land, shore, and marsh crabs)
Pachygrapsus crassipes. Photo: (c) Nature Ali, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
The Grapsoidea are a superfamily of crabs; they are well known and contain many taxa which are terrestrial (land-living), semiterrestrial (taking to the sea only for reproduction), or limnic (living in fresh water). Another well-known member with a more conventional lifestyle is the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Crustacea (Crustaceans)
- Superclass: Multicrustacea (Typical crustaceans)
- Class: Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca (Decapods, isopods, and allies)
- Superorder: Eucarida (Decapods and krill)
- Order: Decapoda (Decapods)
- Suborder: Pleocyemata (Crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and allies)
- Infraorder: Brachyura (True crabs)
- Zoosection: Eubrachyura (Eubrachyuran crabs)
- Zoosubsection: Thoracotremata (Thoracotrematan crabs)
- Superfamily: Grapsoidea (Land, shore, and marsh crabs)
- Zoosubsection: Thoracotremata (Thoracotrematan crabs)
- Zoosection: Eubrachyura (Eubrachyuran crabs)
- Infraorder: Brachyura (True crabs)
- Suborder: Pleocyemata (Crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and allies)
- Order: Decapoda (Decapods)
- Superorder: Eucarida (Decapods and krill)
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca (Decapods, isopods, and allies)
- Class: Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
- Superclass: Multicrustacea (Typical crustaceans)
- Subphylum: Crustacea (Crustaceans)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
