| Callianassidae Temporal range: Pennsylvanian to Recent[1] (based on Ophiomorpha trace fossils)
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| Pestarella tyrrhena | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| (unranked): | Reptantia |
| Infraorder: | Axiidea |
| Family: | Callianassidae Dana, 1852 |
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Callianassidae is a family of ghost shrimp crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Axiidea, within the order Decapoda.
- ^ Bridge. J.S. and Demicco. R.V. (2008) Earth Surface Processes, Landforms and Sediment Deposits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 322