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Anomura (sometimes Anomala) is a
group of
decapod crustaceans,
including hermit crabs and others.
Although the
names of many
anomurans include the word...
- and
carcinised Anomura is the
number of leg pairs.
While Brachyura (true)
crabs have four
pairs of legs used for locomotion,
Anomura possess one much...
- of
these species are crabs, with the
shrimp (about 3,000 species) and
Anomura including hermit crabs,
porcelain crabs,
squat lobsters (about 2500 species)...
- (lobsters and crabs).
Brachyura is the
sister clade to the
infraorder Anomura,
which contains the
hermit crabs and relatives. The
cladogram below shows...
- (mud
lobsters and
ghost shrimp)
Gebiidea (mud
lobsters and mud shrimp)
Anomura (squat lobsters,
hermit crabs, and relatives)
Brachyura (true crabs) The...
-
squat lobsters and
porcelain crabs, they all
belong to the
infraorder Anomura, the
sister taxon to Brachyura. However, the
relationship of king crabs...
- (1993), p. 644 Greenaway,
Peter (2003). "Terrestrial
adaptations in the
Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda)".
Memoirs of
Museum Victoria. 60 (1): 13–26. doi:10...
- (2010). "A new
classification of the
Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Anomura)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 57–68.
Keiji Baba;
Enrique Macpherson; Gary C....
- (2006). "A new
squat lobster family of
Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda,
Anomura) from the
hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge" (PDF). Zoosystema...
- Lomisoidea),
Hippoidea is one of the four
groups that make up the
infraorder Anomura. Of the four,
Hippoidea is
thought to be the most basal, with the other...
