Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callichiridae
Alternative spelling: Callichirinae
Full reference: R. B. Manning and D. L. Felder. 1991. Revision of the American Callianassidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 104:764-792
Parent taxon: Axiidea according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023
See also Hyzny and Dulai 2013, Karasawa and Fudouji 2000, Karasawa and Nakagawa 2010, Komai et al. 2019, Manning and Felder 1991, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2004, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Schweitzer et al. 2005 and Todd and Collins 2005
Sister taxa: Anacalliacidae, Axiidae, Axioidea, Callianassidae, Callianassoidea, Callianideidae, Callianopsidae, Ctenochelidae, Eucalliacidae, Mesostylus, Micheleidae, Paracalliacidae, Psammionassa, Strahlaxiidae
Subtaxa: Balsscallichirus Calliapaguropinae Callichirus Corallianassa Eoglypturus Glypturoides Glypturus Karumballichirus Laticallichirus Lepidophthalmus Neocallichirus Vecticallichirus
Type: Callichirus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Jamaica (3 collections), Japan (2), the Philippines (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1), Japan (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Hungary (1), Japan (7), Mexico (1), Panama (11), the Philippines (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), United States (2: Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Mexico (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (5), United States (7: Mississippi, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington)
• Eocene of Egypt (4), Hungary (1), Italy (9), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Spain (1), United States (3: California)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), Italy (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1)
Total: 79 collections including 92 occurrences