Family Nephropidae
(clawed lobsters)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

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  Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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  Eumetazoa (metazoans)
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  Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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  Protostomia (protostomes)
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  Ecdysozoa
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  Phylum Arthropoda (crustaceans, insects, spiders, and relatives)
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  Subphylum Crustacea (crustaceans)
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  Class Malacostraca (crabs, krill, pill bugs, shrimp, and relatives)
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  Subclass Eumalacostraca
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  Superorder Eucarida
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  Order Decapoda (crabs, shrimp, and relatives)
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  Suborder Pleocyemata
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  Infraorder Astacidea
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  Superfamily Nephropoidea
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  Family Nephropidae (clawed lobsters)
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  Subfamily Neophoberinae
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  Genus Acanthacaris
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  Subfamily Nephropinae
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  Genus Eunephrops
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  Genus Homarus
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  Genus Metanephrops
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  Genus Nephrops
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  Genus Thymopides
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  Subfamily Thymopinae
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  Genus Nephropides
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  Genus Nephropsis
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  Genus Thymops
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  Genus Thymopsis