Brachyura

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Thia scutellata

[edit] Taxonavigation

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectiones: Podotremata - Eubrachyura
[list of sectiones after Ng, Guinot & Davie (2008)]

[edit] Name

Brachyura

[edit] References

• Ahyong, S.T. 2008: Deepwater crabs from seamounts and chemosynthetic habitats off eastern New Zealand (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa, 1708: 1-72.
• McLay, C.L. 1988: Crabs of New Zealand. Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of New Zealand. Leigh laboratory bulletin, (22). University of Auckland Leigh Marine Laboratory, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Ng, P.K.L.; Guinot, D.; Davie, P.J.F. 2008: Systema Brachyurorum: Part 1. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles bulletin of zoology, supplement (17) PDF
• Wear, R.G.; Fielder, D.R. 1985: The marine fauna of New Zealand: larvae of the Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute memoir, (92).

[edit] Vernacular Names

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