Cancroidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of crabs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Cancer pagurus.jpg

| image_caption = Cancer pagurus

| taxon = Cancroidea

| authority = Latreille, 1802

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision =

• Atelecyclidae
• Cancridae

}}

Cancroidea is a superfamily of crabs, comprising the families Atelecyclidae and Cancridae.{{cite journal |journal=Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=285–298 |year=2013 |title=A proposal for a new family: Montezumellidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and description of new genus and species Moianella cervantesi from the Priabonian (late Eocene) of Catalonia (NE of Iberian Peninsula) |author1=Ossó, À. |author2=Domínguez, J.L.|doi=10.18268/BSGM2013v65n2a10 |doi-access=free }} http://boletinsgm.igeolcu.unam.mx/bsgm/vols/epoca04/6502/%2810%29Osso.pdf Four other families have been separated into new superfamilies: Cheiragonidae into Cheiragonoidea, Corystidae into Corystoidea, and both Pirimelidae and Thiidae into Portunoidea.{{cite journal |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |access-date=2009-12-06 |archive-date=2011-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |url-status=dead }} Montezumellidae has been moved from Cancroidea to his own Superfamily Montezumelloidea Ossó & Domínguez, 2019 (Zootaxa, 4623 (1): 175–188).