Palicoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of crabs}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| taxon = Palicoidea

| image = FMIB 43733 Cymopolia fragilis, Male, after Faxon a, Dorsal view; b, Ventral view.jpeg

| image_caption = Palicus fragilis

| authority = Bouvier, 1898 {{cite web |author=Peter Davie |year=2009 |title=Palicoidea |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=439060 |accessdate=January 28, 2010}}

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = *Crossotonotidae

• Palicidae

}}

Palicoidea is a superfamily of crabs, comprising the two families Crossotonotidae and Palicidae. Together, they contain 13 genera, including two genera in the Palicidae known only from fossils.{{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}} The two families were previously treated as two subfamilies in a Palicidae of wider circumscription.{{cite journal |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2008 |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |author=Peter K. L. Ng |author2=Danièle Guinot |author3=Peter J. F. Davie |name-list-style=amp |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf }}{{cite WoRMS|last=Boyko|first=Christopher B.|date=4 October 2022|title=Palicoidea Bouvier, 1898|id=439060|access-date=14 October 2024}}

;Family Crossotonotidae {{small|Moosa & Serène, 1981}}

{{Linked genus list

| Crossotonotus | A. Milne-Edwards, 1873

| † Montemagrellus | De Angeli & Ceccon, 2014

| Pleurophricus | A. Milne-Edwards, 1873

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;Family Palicidae {{small|Bouvier, 1898}}

{{Linked genus list

| † Eopalicus | Beschin, Busulini, De Angeli & Tessier, 1996

| Exopalicus | Castro, 2000

| Miropalicus | Castro, 2000

| Neopalicus | Moosa & Serène, 1981

| Palicoides | Moosa & Serène, 1981

| Paliculus | Castro, 2000

| Palicus | Philippi, 1838

| Parapalicus | Moosa & Serène, 1981

| Pseudopalicus | Moosa & Serène, 1981

| Rectopalicus | Castro, 2000

| † Spinipalicus | Beschin & De Angeli, 2003

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