- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Arthropoda
- Subphylum Crustacea
- Superclass Multicrustacea
- Class Malacostraca
- Subclass Eumalacostraca
- Superorder Eucarida
- Order Decapoda
- Suborder Pleocyemata
- Infraorder Brachyura
- Section Eubrachyura
Child taxons:
| Superfamily Calappoidea |     |
| Superfamily Cancroidea → Family Cancridae |    |
| Superfamily Carpilioidea → Genus Carpiliidae → Genus Carpilius |    |
| Superfamily Dorippoidea → Family Dorippidae → Genus Dorippe |  |
| Superfamily Leucosioidea → Family Leucosiidae |    |
| Superfamily Majoidea |     |
| Superfamily Palicoidea → Family Palicidae → Genus Pseudopalicus |  |
| Superfamily Parthenopoidea → Family Parthenopidae → Subfamily Parthenopinae |    |
| Superfamily Pilumnoidea → Family Pilumnidae → Subfamily Eumedoninae |   |
| Superfamily Portunoidea |     |
| Superfamily Trapezioidea |     |
| Superfamily Xanthoidea |     |