| Nephropoidea | |
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| Nephropsis rosea | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Astacidea |
| Superfamily: | Nephropoidea Dana, 1852 |
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Nephropoidea is asuperfamily ofdecapodcrustaceans. It contains the true lobsters in theNephropidae (including the rarethaumastochelid lobsters), and three fossil families:Chilenophoberidae,Protastacidae andStenochiridae.[1] Their closest relatives are thereef lobsters.[1]
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| Pleocyemata |
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