- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Arthropoda
- Subphylum Crustacea
- Superclass Multicrustacea
- Class Malacostraca
- Subclass Eumalacostraca
- Superorder Eucarida
- Order Decapoda
- Suborder Pleocyemata
- Infraorder Brachyura
- Section Eubrachyura
- Subsection Heterotremata
- Superfamily Portunoidea
Child taxons:
| Subfamily Achelouinae → Genus Achelous |    |
| Subfamily Caphyrinae → Genus Lissocarcinus |    |
| Subfamily Carupinae |   |
| Subfamily Lupocyclinae → Genus Lupocyclus |   |
| Subfamily Portuninae |     |
| Subfamily Thalamitinae |     |