Grapsoidea

Hemigrapsus nudus, Puget Sound, Washington, USA

The superfamily: Grapsoidea are a superfamily of crustaceans from the partial order of the crabs ( Brachyura ) in the order of decapods ( Decapoda ). They live semi -aquatic (half on land and half in the water) to both freshwater as well as at sea. They appear mainly in the tropics, only a few species live in temperate latitudes.

System

According to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System ( ITIS) is the superfamily of superfamily: Grapsoidea from six families. Within this classification, however, only the families Grapsidae, Sesarmidae and Varunidae are monophyletic. Within the Sesarmidae the genera Chiromantes and Parasesarma are probably not monophyletic.

• Gecarcinidae, land crabs Cardisoma Cardisoma armatum, harlequin shrimp

• Gecarcoidea natalis, Christmas Island Crab

• Glyptograpsidae Glyptograpsus

• Geograpsus
• Goniopsis
• Grapsus
• Leptograpsus
• Metopograpsus
• Pachygrapsus
• Planes

• Euchirograpsus
• Percnon
• Plagusia

• Aratus
• Armases
• Chiromanntes
• Clistocoeloma
• Episesarma
• Geosesarma, vampire crabs
• Holometopus
• Metopaulias
• Neosarmatium
• Parasesarma
• Pseudosesarma, mangrove crabs
• Sarmatian
• Selatium
• Sesarma
• Sesarmoides
• Sesarmops

• Brachynotus
• Chasmagnathus
• Cyclograpsus
• Cyrtograpsus
• Eriocheir Eriocheir sinensis, Chinese mitten crab