WoRMS taxon details
Decapoda
- Suborder Dendrobranchiata
- Suborder Pleocyemata
- Suborder Euzygida accepted as Stenopodidea
- Suborder Heterochelida (accepted as Achelata, Anomura, Axiidea, Brachyura, Caridea, Gebiidea, Glypheidea, Polychelida )
- Suborder Macrura (previously applied to all the long-tailed taxa, shrimps and lobsters)
- Suborder Trichelida (accepted as Dendrobranchiata, Stenopodidea, Astacidea )
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. <em>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.</em> 14 vols.:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876 [details] 
WoRMS (2025). Decapoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1130 on 2025-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. <em>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.</em> 14 vols.:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876 [details]
basis of record Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Poore, G. C. B. (2016). The names of the higher taxa of Crustacea Decapoda. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 36, 248-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/1937240X-00002415 [details] Available for editors 
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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. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl.</em> 21: 1-109., available online at http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/index.php/supplements/12-research/research-publications/258-supplement-no-21 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]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. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl.</em> 21: 1-109., available online at http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/index.php/supplements/12-research/research-publications/258-supplement-no-21 [details] Available for editors
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context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (PeRMS) Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. <em>Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú.</em> 27(1-2): 8-207., available online at https://repositorio.imarpe.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12958/2190 [details]
context source (PeRMS) Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. <em>Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú.</em> 27(1-2): 8-207., available online at https://repositorio.imarpe.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12958/2190 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | tienpotigen | [details] |
| English | ten-footeddecapods | [details] |
| German | ZehnfußkrebseDecapoden | [details] |
| Japanese | 十脚目 | [details] |
| Swedish | tiofotade kräftdjur | [details] |
