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Thoracotrematan Crabs
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Thoracotrematan Crabs

Thoracotremata

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 .

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5 branches of this group, most-observed first

Shore and marsh crabs

superfamilyGrapsoidea

Ghost, Fiddler, Sand Bubbler Crabs and Allies

superfamilyOcypodoidea

Land Crabs and Allies

superfamilyGecarcinoidea

Pea crabs

superfamilyPinnotheroidea

Coral Enveloped Crabs

superfamilyCryptochiroidea

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 706188.