Overview
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Taxonomy
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The Family Kiwaidae is a member of the Superfamily Galatheoidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Kiwaidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Crustaceomorpha
(Chernyshev, 1960)
- Superclass: Crustacea
(krus-TA-see-a)
Pennant, 1777
- Class: Malacostraca
Latreille, 1802
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca
Grobben, 1892
- Superorder: Eucarida
Calman, 1904
- Order: Decapoda
Latreille, 1802 - Decapods
- Suborder: Pleocyemata
Burkenroad, 1963
- Infraorder: Anomura
MacLeay, 1838
- Superfamily: Galatheoidea
Samouelle, 1819
- Family: Kiwaidae E. Macpherson et al., 2005
- Superfamily: Galatheoidea
Samouelle, 1819
- Infraorder: Anomura
MacLeay, 1838
- Suborder: Pleocyemata
Burkenroad, 1963
- Order: Decapoda
Latreille, 1802 - Decapods
- Superorder: Eucarida
Calman, 1904
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca
Grobben, 1892
- Class: Malacostraca
Latreille, 1802
- Superclass: Crustacea
(krus-TA-see-a)
Pennant, 1777
- Infraphylum: Crustaceomorpha
(Chernyshev, 1960)
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Kiwaidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (1): Kiwa
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in the Family Kiwaidae.
Genera
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Kiwa
More info about the Genus Kiwa may be found here.
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