Tags: Crustacean.
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. The two families were previously treated as two subfamilies in a Palicidae of wider circumscription.Family Crossotonotidae Moosa & Serène 1981Crossotonotus A. Milne-Edwards 1873Pleurophricus A.