# Seroloidea

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{{Short description|Superfamily of isopods}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Seroloidea
| authority = [Dana](/source/James_Dwight_Dana), 1852<ref name=ALPHA>{{cite WoRMS |year=2025 |title=Seroloidea Dana, 1852 |id=292951 |access-date=21 December 2025 |db=Isopoda}}</ref>
| synonyms = * '''Serolidea''' <small>Dana, 1852</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name=ALPHA/>
| subdivision_ranks = [Families](/source/Family_(taxonomy))
| subdivision_ref = <ref name=ALPHA/>
| subdivision = See [text](/source/Seroloidea).
}}

'''Seroloidea''' is a [superfamily](/source/superfamily_(taxonomy)) of [isopod](/source/isopod) [crustacean](/source/crustacean)s in the suborder [Sphaeromatidea](/source/Sphaeromatidea).<ref name=ALPHA/>

== Families ==
Seroloidea contains 6 families<ref name=ALPHA/><ref name=BETA>{{Catalogue of Life|id=7NGZ7
|title=Seroloidea Dana, 1852|option=taxon|access-date=21 December 2025}}</ref>, four extant and two extinct.<ref name=ALPHA/> A seventh family, [Chelonidiidae](/source/Chelonidiidae), exists, but it is considered a synonym of [Plakarthriidae](/source/Plakarthriidae) by the [World Register of Marine Species](/source/World_Register_of_Marine_Species).<ref name=ALPHA/>

=== Extant families ===
<ref name=ALPHA/><ref name=CHARLIE>{{cite web |title=Open Tree taxonomy: Seroloidea |url=https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/taxonomy/browse?id=5741921 |website=Open Tree of Life |access-date=21 December 2025}}</ref>
* [Basserolidae](/source/Basserolidae) <small>Brandt & Poore, 2003</small>
* [Bathynataliidae](/source/Bathynataliidae) <small>Kensley, 1978</small>
* [Chelonidiidae](/source/Chelonidiidae) <small>Pfeffer, 1887</small> ([synonym](/source/synonym_(taxonomy)) of [Plakarthriidae](/source/Plakarthriidae)<ref name=ALPHA/>)
* [Plakarthriidae](/source/Plakarthriidae) <small>Hansen, 1905</small>
* [Serolidae](/source/Serolidae) <small>Dana, 1852</small>

=== Extinct families ===
<ref name=ALPHA/>
* {{extinct}}[Schweglerellidae](/source/Schweglerellidae) <small>Brandt, Crame, Polz & Thomson, 1999</small>
* {{extinct}}[Tricarinidae](/source/Tricarinidae) <small>Feldmann, Kolahdouz, Biranvand & Schweigert, 2007</small>

== References ==
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Category:Sphaeromatidea
Category:Crustacean superfamilies
Category:Taxa named by James Dwight Dana
Category:Taxa described in 1852

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