Parasquillidae
Sign in to savethumb|left|Parasquilla haani painted by [[Kawahara Keiga in the period 1823 - 1829. Siebold Collection.]] Parasquillidae is a family of mantis shrimp containing the three genera Faughnia, Parasquilla and Pseudosquillopsis. It was previously included in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea, but that group was found to be paraphyletic, and a new superfamily, Parasquilloidea was erected.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderStomatopoda
- FamilyParasquillidae
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thumb|left|Parasquilla haani painted by [[Kawahara Keiga in the period 1823 - 1829. Siebold Collection.]] Parasquillidae is a family of mantis shrimp containing the three genera Faughnia, Parasquilla and Pseudosquillopsis. It was previously included in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea, but that group was found to be paraphyletic, and a new superfamily, Parasquilloidea was erected.
==References==
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