Cambaroididae Temporal range:
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Cambaroides japonicus | |
†Palaeocambarus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Superfamily: | Astacoidea |
Family: | Cambaroididae Villalobos, 1955 |
Genera | |
Cambaroididae is a family of crayfish. It contains two genera, the extant Cambaroides, known from a number of species living in East Asia, and the extinct Palaeocambarus, known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian) Yixian Formation of China.[1]