Family Porcellanidea Stimpson 1862 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Porcellanidea

Full reference: W. Stimpson. 1862. Notes on North American Crustacea. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7(1):49-93

Parent taxon: Ocypodoidea according to W. Stimpson 1862

Sister taxa: Camptandriidae, Dotillidae, Heloeciidae, Hypoconcha, Macrophthalmidae, Mictyridae, Ocypodidae, Ucididae, Xenophthalmidae

Subtaxa: Porcella

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Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at FL Keys (Quaternary of Flrida)

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