Oplophoroidea Dana, 1852

Lunina, Anastasiia, Kulagin, Dmitry & Vereshchaka, Alexander, 2024, The taxonomic status of Hymenodora (Crustacea: Oplophoroidea): morphological and molecular analyses suggest a new family and an undescribed diversity deep in the sea, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 200 (2), pp. 336-351 : 346

Superfamily Oplophoroidea Dana, 1852

Diagnosis (after Chace 1986, amended): Rostrum immovably attached to carapace; antennular flagella simple, without accessory branches; mandible with palp, molar and incisor processes not deeply separated; third maxilliped elongate, five-segmented, with well-developed exopod; all pereopods with well-developed exopod, pereopods 1–3 with strap-like epipod, pereopods 1 and 2 with well-developed chela and undivided carpus, pereopods 3–5 moderately long, carpus shorter than propodus; pleopods bearing appendices interna.