Homoloidea

Homoloidea; Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Paromola cuvieri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Section:	Dromiacea
Superfamily:	Homoloidea; De Haan, 1839
Families
	Homolidae; Latreilliidae; Poupiniidae;

Homoloidea is a superfamily of dromiacean crabs. Homoloidea belongs the group Dromiacea, taxonomically ranked as a section, and is the sister group to Dromioidea. Dromiacea is the most basal grouping of Brachyura crabs, and likely diverged from the rest of Brachyura around the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic.^[1]^[2] The close relation between Homoloidea and Dromioidea is primarily established through ultrastructural characteristics of the sperm.^[3]

The below cladogram shows Homoloidea's placement within Dromiacea:^[1]

	Dromiidae (may be paraphyletic)

	Dynomenidae

Homoloidea

Recent studies have found that the Homoloidea family Homolidae is paraphyletic with respect to Latreilliidae.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Ling Ming Tsang; Christoph D. Schubart; Shane T. Ahyong; Joelle C.Y. Lai; Eugene Y.C. Au; Tin-Yam Chan; Peter K.L. Ng; Ka Hou Chu (2014). "Evolutionary History of True Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) and the Origin of Freshwater Crabs". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31 (5). Oxford University Press : 1173–1187. doi:10.1093/molbev/msu068. PMID 24520090.
^ Wolfe, Joanna M.; Breinholt, Jesse W.; Crandall, Keith A.; Lemmon, Alan R.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Timm, Laura E.; Siddall, Mark E.; Bracken-Grissom, Heather D. (24 April 2019). "A phylogenomic framework, evolutionary timeline and genomic resources for comparative studies of decapod crustaceans". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286 (1901). doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0079. PMC 6501934. PMID 31014217.
^ Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132.

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