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Brachyura 
AphiaID: 106673

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder)
Authority Linnaeus, 1758
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Infraorder
Parent Pleocyemata
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Ng, P.K.L.; Guinot, D.; Davie, P.J.F. (2008). Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of the extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1-286. [details]

additional source: Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch echte krabben  [details]
Dutch krabben  [details]
English crabs  [details]
Swedish krabbor  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Section Brachyura incertae sedis
Section Dromiacea
Section Eubrachyura
Section Podotremata
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Classification: Included in subordo Reptantia by d'Udekem d'Acoz [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106673
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
  
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  Citation: Türkay, M. (2013). Brachyura. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106673 on 2013-05-22
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