Dromioidea
Sign in to saveDromioidea is a superfamily of crabs mostly found in Madagascar. Dromioidea belongs to the group Dromiacea, taxonomically ranked as a section, which is the most basal grouping of Brachyura crabs. Dromiacea likely diverged from the rest of Brachyura around the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic, and the earliest fossils attributable to the Dromioidea date from the Late Jurassic.
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Superfamily
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
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Dromioidea is a superfamily of crabs mostly found in Madagascar. Dromioidea belongs to the group Dromiacea, taxonomically ranked as a section, which is the most basal grouping of Brachyura crabs. Dromiacea likely diverged from the rest of Brachyura around the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic, and the earliest fossils attributable to the Dromioidea date from the Late Jurassic.
The below cladogram shows Dromioidea's placement within Dromiacea:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dromioidea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.