Grapsoidea

	Grapsoidea
	; Hemigrapsus takanoi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Animals
Kingdom :	Eumetazoi
No rank :	Bilateral symmetrical
No rank :	Primary
No rank :	Molting
No rank :	Panarthropoda
Type of:	Arthropods
Subtype :	Crustaceans
Grade:	Higher crayfish
Subclass :	Eumalacostraki
Squadron :	Eucarides
Squad:	Decapod crayfish
Suborder :	Pleocyemata
Infrastructure :	Crabs
Section :	Eubrachyura
Subsection :	Thoracotremata
Superfamily :	Grapsoidea
International scientific name
	Grapsoidea MacLeay , 1838
Families
	Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838; Glyptograpsidae Schubart et al. , 2002; Grapsidae MacLeay, 1838; Plagusiidae Dana , 1851; Sesarmidae Dana, 1851; Varunidae Milne-Edwards , 1853;

Grapsoidea (lat.) - a superfamily of decapod crustaceans from the infra- order of crab ( Brachyura ). Many representatives lead a semi-land way of life ^[2] . Grapsoidea contain relatively many species that are terrestrial (land-living), terrestrial (migrating to the sea for breeding only), or living in fresh water.

Systematics

The distinction between Grapsidae and Plagusiidae needs to be revised; the latter, at least, not monophyletic. The same is apparently true for several genera in Sesarmidae. The closest living relatives of Grapsoidea are Ocypodoidea. In fact, they seem paraphyletic to each other, and it seems justified to combine Ocypodoidea into Grapsoidea

Notes

↑ Grave, S. De, Pentcheff, ND, Ahyong, ST, Chan, TY, Crandall, KA, Dworschak, PC, Felder, DL, Feldmann, RM, Fransen, CHJM, Goulding, LYD, Lemaitre, R., Low, MEY, Martin, JW, Ng, PKL, Schweitzer, CE, Tan, SH, Tshudy, D., Wetzer, R. (2009). A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21 : 1–109. P. 44. Text (English) (Retrieved November 15, 2012)
↑ Burggren WW, McMahon, BR Biology of the land crabs . Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988. i-xii + 1–479 p. ISBN 978-0-521-30690-4

Literature

Schubart, CD, Cuesta, JA, Felder, DL (2002). Glyptograpsidae, a new brachyuran family from Central America: larval and adult morphology, and a molecular phylogeny of the Grapsoidea. Journal of Crustacean Biology 22 (1): 28–44. Text (English) (Retrieved November 15, 2012)

[grave-1] Grave, S. De, Pentcheff, ND, Ahyong, ST, Chan, TY, Crandall, KA, Dworschak, PC, Felder, DL, Feldmann, RM, Fransen, CHJM, Goulding, LYD, Lemaitre, R., Low, MEY, Martin, JW, Ng, PKL, Schweitzer, CE, Tan, SH, Tshudy, D., Wetzer, R. (2009). A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21 : 1–109. P. 44. Text (English) (Retrieved November 15, 2012)

[burgrenn-2] Burggren WW, McMahon, BR Biology of the land crabs . Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988. i-xii + 1–479 p. ISBN 978-0-521-30690-4

Grapsoidea

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