Thoracotremata

Thoracotremata
Leptograpsus variegatus, Grapsidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacea
Class:Malacostraca
Order:Decapoda
Infraorder:Brachyura
Section:Eubrachyura
Subsection:Thoracotremata
Guinot, 1977
Families

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Thoracotremata is a clade of crabs, comprising those crabs in which the genital openings in both sexes are on the sternum, rather than on the legs. It comprises 17 families in four superfamilies .[1]

Superfamilies and families

References

  1. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.


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