Palicidae Bouvier, 1898

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 261

Family Palicidae Bouvier, 1898

Two species of this family have been reported from California, both from specimens collected during an El Niño period of warmer waters. Older works refer to this family as the Cympolidae, but the generic name Cympolia has been found to be a homonyn. Holthuis & Gottlieb (1958) and Ng et al. (2008: 127) gave further information on the nomenclature of this family. Martin & Davis (2001: 56) included this family among the superfamily Ocypodoidea but noted differing opinions on its superfamilial relationships. I follow Ng et al. (2008) in placing the family into a separate superfamily based on the location of the genital openings.