Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callianassidae
Parent taxon: Callianassoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann et al. 1995, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2003, Feldmann et al. 2019, Karasawa 1992, Karasawa 2000, Karasawa and Fudouji 2000, Komai et al. 2019, Rathbun 1918, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer and Feldmann 1999, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2004, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Schweitzer et al. 2005, Stenzel 1935, Todd and Collins 2005, Vega et al. 2001 and Whetstone and Collins 1982
Sister taxa: Callianideidae, Ctenochelidae, Thomassiniidae
Subtaxa: Balsscallichirus Biffarius Brecanclawu Callianassa Callianassinae Calliax Calliaxina Callichirinae Callichirus Cheraminae Comoxianassa Corallianassa Cowichianassa Eucalliacinae Eucalliax Eucalliinae Melipal Mesostylus Neotrypaea Paraglypturus Pehuenchia Pleuronassa Podocallichirus Protocallianassa Protocallianassinae Sergio Trypaea Typaea Vegarthron Zapalianassa
Type: Callianassa
Ecology: infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (2 collections), Jamaica (3), Japan (2), the Philippines (1), South Africa (1), United States (7: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (2)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Japan (5), United States (3: Virginia), Vanuatu (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), United States (2: North Carolina, Virginia)
• Neogene of Poland (1)
• Miocene of Angola (1), Anguilla (4), Austria (1), Chile (1), Colombia (2), the Dominican Republic (2), Hungary (7), Italy (2), Japan (23), Malta (1), Mexico (3), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (17), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), United States (5: Florida), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Mexico (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Italy (3), Japan (8), United States (20: Mississippi, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington)
• Eocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Antarctica (7), Australia (1), Chile (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (9), France (2), Hungary (2), India (1), Italy (9), Jamaica (3), Japan (2), Libya (1), Mexico (9), Pakistan (1), Peru (2), Spain (1), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (32: Alabama, California, Florida, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Paleogene of Mexico (3), United States (1: Washington)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3), Mexico (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), United States (14: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (8), Argentina (10), Austria (2), Brazil (12), Canada (7: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (2), Egypt (1), France (4), Germany (2), Italy (2), Japan (1), Lebanon (1), Mexico (3), Morocco (2), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), Spain (2), United States (55: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, mississippi)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 385 collections including 479 occurrences