Parasquillidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Stomatopoda |
Suborder: | Unipeltata |
Superfamily: | Parasquilloidea Ahyong & Harling, 2000 [2] |
Family: | Parasquillidae Manning, 1995 [1] |
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Parasquillidae is a family of mantis shrimp containing the three genera Faughnia, Parasquilla and Pseudosquillopsis.[3] It was previously included in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea, but that group was found to be paraphyletic, and a new superfamily, Parasquilloidea was erected.[4]