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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.

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Subsection

  1. PhylumArthropoda
  2. ClassMalacostraca
  3. 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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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.

==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.