Malacostraca - Decapoda - Alpheidae

Synonym: Pterocarididae Christofferson 1990

Parent taxon: Alpheoidea according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023

See also Feldmann et al. 2019 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Barbouriidae, Bythocarididae, Hippolytidae, Lysmatidae, Merguiidae, Ogyrididae, Thoridae

Subtaxa: Alpheopsis Alpheus Arete Athanas Athanopsis Betaeus Symalpheus

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Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Jones Branch (Oligocene of Mississippi)

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