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Brachyura   Listen
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Brachyura  n. pl.  (Also spelled Brachyoura)  (Zool.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. See Crab.





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... Arachnida are neither less specialized, nor more embryonic, than these that now live, nor are the Liassic Cirripedia and Macrura; while several of the Brachyura, which appear in the Chalk, belong to existing genera; and none exhibit either an intermediate, or ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley


Words linked to "Brachyura" :   suborder Brachyura, family Portunidae, family Cancridae, Majidae, brachyuran, brachyurous, family Pinnotheridae, genus Menippe, Reptantia, animal order, genus Uca, Menippe, Portunidae, Cancridae, Uca, family Lithodidae, crab, suborder Reptantia


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