FAMILY : PALAEMONIDAE

With a pleurobranch at the base of the third maxilliped

Posterior margin of telson armed with 2 pairs of spines and 2 or more pair of setae

Never commensal

Subfamily : Palaemoninae

No pleurobranch at the base of the third maxilliped

Posterior margin of telson armed with three pairs of spines

Mostly commensal

Subfamily : Pontoniinae

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