Heterotremata

Heterotremata (from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros), meaning "different", and τρῆμα (trêma), meaning "hole") is a clade of crabs, comprising those crabs in which the genital openings are on the sternum in females, but on the legs in males. It comprises 68 families in 28 superfamilies.

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, Heterotremata is referenced by 78 other articles, and connects out to Orithyia sinica, Decapoda and Portunoidea.

It is catalogued under the topic Eubrachyura.

Its subject is documented across 16 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Subsection

PhylumArthropoda
ClassMalacostraca
OrderDecapoda

Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater

Heterotremata é um clado de caranguejos que inclui as espécies nas quais as aberturas genitais femininas estão localizadas no esterno e as masculinas nas patas. Inclui 68 famílias agrupadas em 28 superfamílias.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Eubrachyura
Image: Xantho poressa 2009 G2.jpg

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taxon name: Heterotremata
topic's main category: Category:Heterotremata
Commons category: Heterotremata

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Evolution
Superfamilies
References
External links

==Evolution== Heterotremata is the sister group to Thoracotremata within the clade Eubrachyura, having diverged during the Cretaceous period. Eubrachyura itself is a subset of the larger clade Brachyura, which consists of all "true crabs". A summary of the high-level internal relationships within Brachyura can be shown in the cladogram below:

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heterotremata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.