Gecarcinucoidea
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| Gecarcinucoidea | |
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| Gecarcinus quadratus (Halloween crab) at Nosara, Costa Rica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Subsection: | Heterotremata |
| Superfamily: | Gecarcinucoidea Rathbun, 1904 [1] |
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Gecarcinucoidea is a superfamily of freshwater crabs. Its members have been grouped into families in various ways, with some authors recognizing families such as "Deckeniidae", "Sundathelphusidae", and "Parathelphusidae",[2] but now only the family Gecarcinucidae is currently recognized.[3][4]
