PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF HIPPOLYTID GENERA,WITH AN ASSIGNMENT OF NEW FAMILIES FOR THE CRANGONOIDEA AND ALPHEOIDEA (CRUSTACEA,DECAPODA, CARIDEA)

A manual cladistic analysis of the unnamed monophyletic taxon Alpheoidea plus Crangonoidea produced a cladogram containing 36 terminal taxa and 185 characters. The genealogical relationships of most of the 35 genera presently classified under the Hippolytidae have been resolved. Ten of these genera have been transferred, with the Processidae, from the Alpheoidea to the Crangonoidea. The concept of the Hippolytidae Bate, 1888 has been considerably restricted, the available names Lysmatidae Dana, 1852, Thoridae Kingsley, 1878, Hippolytinae Bate, 1888, and Latreutinae Ortmann, 1896 have been invalidated, and the new, family group names Barbouridae, Nauticarididae, Alopidae, and Bythocarididae are proposed. The traditional practice of naming monotypic taxa of suprageneric level has been avoided, yet all genealogical information indicated in the cladogram can be retrieved from the final classification proposed here for the Crangonoidea and Alpheoidea.