Nephropoidea
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| Nephropoidea Temporal range: Middle Permian - present | |
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| Nephropsis rosea | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Astacidea |
| Superfamily: | Nephropoidea Dana, 1852 |
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Nephropoidea is a superfamily of decapod crustaceans. It contains the true lobsters in the Nephropidae (including the rare thaumastochelid lobsters), and three fossil families: Chilenophoberidae, Protastacidae and Stenochiridae.[1] Their closest relatives are the reef lobsters.[1]
