Parent taxon: Thoracotremata according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2023
See also Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2008, Karasawa 1993, Luque et al. 2017, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer and Karasawa 2004
Sister taxa: Cryptochiroidea, Ocypodoidea, Oxypodoidea, Palicoidea, Pinnotheroidea
Subtaxa: Daragrapsus Daranyia Gecarcinidae Glyptograpsidae Grapsidae Percnidae Plagusiidae Pseudodaranyia Sesarmidae Varunidae Xenograpsidae
Type: Grapsus
Ecology: infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bermuda (2 collections), Brazil (1), Cuba (1), Haiti (1), Jamaica (3), Mexico (2), Puerto Rico (1), Spain (1), United States (17: California, Florida, Flrida, Maryland, Pennslyvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virgin Islands)
• Pliocene to Holocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1)
• Pliocene of Fiji (2), Italy (1), New Zealand (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Brazil (2), Hungary (10), Italy (2), Japan (17), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), United States (2: Oregon)
• Neogene of Poland (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (5), Japan (2), United States (3: Washington)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), Italy (5)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
Total: 90 collections including 111 occurrences