INFRAORDER : CARIDEA


Fingers of chela are spoon shaped and with brushes of long hairs

Super family : Oplophoroidea 
Fingers of chela normal

Carpus of the second pair of legs not subdivided

First pereopods with normal chela

Super family : Palaemonoidea 
First pereopods subchelate and the rostrum is short
Super family : Crangonoidea  
Carpus of the second pair of legs subdivided

Chela of the first pair of pereopods small or absent

Super family : Pandaloidea 
Chelae of the first pair of pereopods prominent
Super family : Alpheoidea 


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