{{Short description|Superfamily of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Calathura norvegica.png | image_caption = ''Calathura norvegica'' (Leptanthuridae) | taxon = Anthuroidea | authority = Leach, 1814 }}
'''Anthuroidea''' is a superfamily of isopod crustaceans, formerly treated as a suborder, '''Anthuridea'''.<ref name="WoRMS"/> The group is characterised by "an elongate cylindrical body form, without dorsal coxal plates, and with a uropodal exopod attached to the peduncle proximally and dorsally".<ref name="Poore">{{cite book |title=Isopod systematics and evolution |series=Volume 13 of Crustacean issues |editor1=Brian Kensley |editor2=Richard C. Brusca |publisher=CRC Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-90-5809-327-1 |author=Gary C. B. Poore |chapter=Families and genera of Isopoda Anthuridea |pages=63–173}}</ref> There are more than 500 described species in 57 genera,<ref name="Poore"/> arranged across six families:<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS |year=2009 |title=Anthuroidea |db=Isopod |id=292944 |accessdate=April 12, 2010}}</ref> *Antheluridae <small>Poore & Lew Ton, 1988</small> *Anthuridae <small>Leach, 1814</small> *Expanathuridae <small>Poore, 2001</small> *Hyssuridae <small>Wägele, 1981</small> *Leptanthuridae <small>Poore, 2001</small> *Paranthuridae <small>Menzies & Glynn, 1968</small>
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Category:Cymothoida Category:Crustacean superfamilies Category:Anthuroidea
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