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Geryon

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Geryonidae

Taxonomy
Geryon is a genus. It is extant. It is the type genus of Geryonidae, Geryoninae.

It was assigned to Decapoda by Sepkoski (2002); to Geryonidae by Karasawa et al. (2008) and Luque et al. (2017); and to Geryoninae by Schweitzer et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Geryon Sepkoski
2008Geryon Karasawa et al. p. 96
2017Geryon Luque et al. p. 17
2021Geryon Schweitzer et al. p. 16

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassMulticrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
classMalacostraca()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
Reptantia(Boas)
MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
Eubrachyurade Saint Laurent 1980
HeterotremataGuinot 1977
superfamilyPortunoideaRafinesque 1815
familyGeryonidaeColosi 1923
subfamilyGeryoninaeColosi 1924
genusGeryon

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Geryon fenneri Manning and Holthuis 1984
Geryon manningi Feldmann et al. 2010
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available