Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectiones: B. sect. Dromiacea – B. sect. Raninoida – B. sect. Cyclodorippoida – B. sect. Eubrachyura

Name

• Brachyura Linnaeus, 1758

References

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 
• Ahyong, S.T. 2008: Deepwater crabs from seamounts and chemosynthetic habitats off eastern New Zealand (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa, 1708: 1–72.
• Brösing, A. 2010: Recent developments on the morphology of the brachyuran foregut ossicles and gastric teeth. Zootaxa, 2510: 1–44. Preview
• Castro, P. 2011: Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa, 2947: 1–154. Preview
• De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., Ahyong, S.T., Chan T-Y., Crandall, K.A., Dworschak, P.C., Felder, D.L., Feldmann, R.M., Fransen, C.H.J.M., Goulding, L.Y.D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M.E.Y., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Schweitzer, C.E., Tan, S.H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. 2009. A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 21: 1–109. PDF. Reference page. 
• Guinot, D.; Tavares, M.; Castro, P. 2013: Significance of the sexual openings and supplementary structures on the phylogeny of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), with new nomina for higher-ranked podotreme taxa. Zootaxa 3665(1): 1–414. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3665.1.1 Reference page. 
• Galil, B.S. & Ng, P.K.L. 2015. Leucosiid crabs from Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of eight new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa 4027(4): 451–486. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.4.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Koettker, A.G. et al. 2012: Illustrated key for the identification of the known zoeal stages of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from tropical and subtropical Brazil, southwestern Atlantic. Zootaxa, 3204: 1–19. Preview
• Low, M.E.Y. 2012: The Brachyura described by the Australian carcinologist William Aitcheson Haswell: checklist, dates of publication and bibliography (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zootaxa, 3220: 61–64. Preview
• Low, M.E.Y., Lee, B.Y. & Ng, P.K.L. 2017. The Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer ‘Valdivia’ 1898–1899: dates of publications and authorship. Zootaxa 4341(1): 113–123. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.1.10. Reference page. 
• Low, M.E.Y.; Ng, P.K.L. 2013: The Brachyura described by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing and a listing of Stebbing’s South African Crustacea for the Marine Investigations in South Africa (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zootaxa 3599(4): 371–376. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.4.5 Reference page. 
• Low, M.E.Y., Ng, P.K.L. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2013. Names and publication dates of the Brachyura in F.É. Guérin (Guérin-Méneville) (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zootaxa 3736(2): 101–127. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3736.2.1 Reference page. 
• Mendoza, J.C.E. & Ng, P.K.L. 2017. Harryplax severus, a new genus and species of an unusual coral rubble-inhabiting crab from Guam (Crustacea, Brachyura, Christmaplacidae). ZooKeys 647: 23–35. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.647.11455 Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L., Guinot, D. & Davie, P.J.F. 2008. Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17: 1—286. PDF. Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L.; Low, M.E.Y. 2010: On the generic nomenclature of nine brachyuran names, with four replacement names and two nomina protecta (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zootaxa, 2489: 34–46. Preview
• Ng, P.K.L., Priyaja, P., Kumar, A.B. & Devi, S. 2019. A collection of crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the southwestern coast of India, with a discussion of the systematic position of Nectopanope Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 (Euryplacidae). Zookeys 818: 1–24. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.818.32108 Reference page. 
• Trivedi, J.N., Trivedi, D., Vachhrajani, K.D. & Ng, P.K.L. 2018. An annotated checklist of the marine brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of India. Zootaxa 4502(1): 1–83. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4502.1.1 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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