| Taxonomic Hierarchy 
        
          |  |  |  |  |  |  | Kingdom | Animalia 
 – Animal, animaux, animals |  |  |  | Subkingdom | Bilateria 
 – triploblasts |  |  |  | Infrakingdom | Protostomia |  |  |  | Superphylum | Ecdysozoa |  |  |  | Phylum | Arthropoda 
 – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods |  |  |  | Subphylum | Crustacea Brünnich, 1772
 – crustacés, crustáceo, crustaceans |  |  |  | Superclass | Altocrustacea |  |  |  | Class | Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 |  |  |  | Subclass | Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892 |  |  |  | Superorder | Eucarida Calman, 1904
 – camarão, caranguejo, ermitão, lagosta, siri |  |  |  | Order | Decapoda Latreille, 1802
 – crabs, crayfishes, lobsters, prawns, shrimp, crabes, crevettes, écrevisses, homards |  |  |  | Suborder | Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963 |  |  |  | Infraorder | Brachyura Latreille, 1802
 – short-tailed crabs, true crabs |  |  |  | Superfamily | Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838 |  |  |  | Family | Xanthidae MacLeay, 1838
 – mud crabs, crabes de boue, xanthidés, pebble crabs, rubble crabs |  |  |  | Genus | Paramedaeus Guinot, 1967 |  |  
          |  |  | Direct Children: |  |  |  | Species | Paramedaeus simplex (A. Milne-Edwards, 1873) |  |  
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