Family Desmocarididae Borradaile 1915 (shrimp)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Desmocarididae
Parent taxon: Palaemonoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Anchistioididae, Gnathophyllidae, Hymenoceridae, Kakaducarididae, Palaemonidae, Palaemoninae, Pontoniinae, Typhlocarididae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Desmocarididae in the database