Scalopidiidae is a family of
crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura (meaning "short tailed" in Greek language, Greek), which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen#Arthropoda, abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the Thorax (arthropo ...
s in the superfamily
Goneplacoidea
Goneplacoidea is a superfamily of crabs containing 11 extant families, and two families known only from fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geolo ...
.
It contains the following genera:
References
Decapod families
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