Procarididea

Procarididea
Procaris ascensionis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Procarididea Felgenhauer & Abele, 1983
Families and genera
Procarididae Chace & Manning, 1972 Procaris Chace & Manning, 1972 Vetericaris Kensley & Williams, 1986 †Udora Münster, 1839 †Udorellidae Van Straelen, 1925 †Udorella Oppel, 1862

Procarididea is an infraorder of decapods, comprising only thirteen species. Six of these are in the genera Procaris and Vetericaris, which together make up the family Procarididae. The remaining seven species are only known from fossils, one belonging to the genus Udorella (the sole member of the family Udorellidae) and the other six belonging to the genus Udora, which cannot yet be assigned to any family.

The cladogram below shows Procarididea's relationships to other relatives within Decapoda, from analysis by Wolfe et al., 2019.

Decapoda

Dendrobranchiata (prawns)  Pleocyemata  Stenopodidea (boxer shrimp) Procarididea Caridea ("true" shrimp)    Reptantia  Achelata (spiny lobsters and slipper lobsters) File:Panulirus argus.png Polychelida (benthic crustaceans) Astacidea (lobsters and crayfish) File:Lobster NSRW rotated2.jpg Axiidea (mud shrimp, ghost shrimp, and burrowing shrimp) Gebiidea (mud lobsters and mud shrimp) File:Upogebia deltaura transparent.png Anomura (hermit crabs and allies) File:Coenobita variabilis.jpg Brachyura ("true" crabs) File:Charybdis japonica.jpg (crawling /  walking  decapods)