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