Luciferidae

Luciferidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Superfamily: Sergestoidea
Family: Luciferidae
De Haan, 1849
Genera

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Luciferidae is a family of prawns. Until recently, the family was thought to be monotypic, but a 2016 cladistic analysis recognized a second genus apart from Lucifer, Belzebub.[1][2]

References

  1. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
  2. Alexander L. Vereshchaka, Jørgen Olesen, Anastasia A. Lunina, 2016. A phylogeny-based revision of the family Luciferidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178: 15–32. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12398.
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