Family Benthesicymidae Wood-Mason 1891 (decapod)
PaleoDB taxon number: 211280
Parent taxon: Penaeoidea according to G. C. B. Poore and S. Ahyong 2004
Sister taxa: Aciculopoda, Aegeridae, Aristeidae, Bylgia, Carinacaris, Carpopenaeidae, Cretapenaeus, Drobna, Dusa, Hakelocaris, Ifasya, Koelga, Libanocaris, Longichela, Macropenaeus, Microchela, Micropenaeus, Penaeidae, Pseudobombur, Pseudodusa, Rauna, Rhodanicaris, Satyrocaris, Sicyoniidae, Sicyoniidae, Solenoceridae
Subtaxa: Benthesicymus, Gennadas
Ecology: carnivore