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Raninoida
Superfamily of crabs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raninoida is a taxonomic section of the crabs, containing a single superfamily, Raninoidea. This group of crabs is unlike most, with the abdomen not being folded under the thorax. It comprises 46 extant species, and nearly 200 species known only from fossils.[1]
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Lyreidus tridentatus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Section: | Raninoida De Haan, 1839 [1] |
Superfamily: | Raninoidea De Haan, 1839 |
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Below is a cladogram showing Raninoidea's placement within Brachyura: [2] [3]