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Alpheoidea
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Alpheoidea

Alpheoidea is a superfamily of shrimp. Species of shrimp in the superfamily Alpheoidea are drag swimmers, as opposed to lift swimmers.

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8 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Thoridae

familyThoridae

Snapping Shrimps

familyAlpheidae

Hump-backed Shrimps

familyHippolytidae

Lysmatidae

familyLysmatidae

Barbouriidae

familyBarbouriidae

Bythocarididae

familyBythocarididae

Ogyrididae

familyOgyrididae

Merguiidae

familyMerguiidae

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51195.