Brachyura

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
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectiones: Dromiacea – Raninoida – Cyclodorippoida – Eubrachyura
Overview of familiae: Christmaplacidae – Dromiidae – Dynomenidae – †Etyidae – †Feldmanniidae – †Prosopidae – …

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 (PDF).
Castro, P. 2011. Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa 2947: 1–154. Preview (PDF).
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.
Devi, S.S., Mendoza, J.C.E., Ravinesh, R., Babu, K.K.I., Kumar, A.B. & Ng, P.K.L. 2019. On a collection of brachyuran crabs from Lakshadweep, Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa 4613(3): 477–501. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.4 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 (PDF).
de Lima, F.A. & Martinelli-Lemos, J.M. 2019. Checklist of the Brachyura of the Brazilian Amazon Coastal Zone and knowledge status of their larval development. Zootaxa 4646(2): 301–321. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4646.2.6 Reference page.
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 (PDF).
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 (PDF).
Ng, P.K.L., Priyaja, P., Biju Kumar, A. & 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

Afrikaans: Krappe
ak: ɔkɔtɔ
asturianu: Cámbaru
беларуская: Крабы
català: Cranc
dansk: Krabbe
Deutsch: Krabben
eʋegbe: Gala
Ελληνικά: Καβούρια (Kavoúria)
English: Crab
Esperanto: Krabo
español: Cangrejo
français: Crabe
magyar: Rövidfarkú rákok
հայերեն: Խեչափառ
Bahasa Indonesia: Kepiting
italiano: Granchio
lietuvių: Krabas
Malagasy: Foza
Nederlands: Krabben
polski: Krab
português: Caranguejo
русский: Краб
slovenčina: Krabbor
shqip: Gërthëla
ไทย: ปู, กรกฎ
Türkçe: Yengeçler
vèneto: Càncaro
中文: 短尾下目