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Definition of Suborder Brachyura
1. Noun. An order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface.
Exact synonyms: Brachyura
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Member holonyms: Brachyuran, Crab, Genus Menippe, Menippe, Cancridae, Family Cancridae, Family Portunidae, Portunidae, Genus Uca, Uca, Family Pinnotheridae, Pinnotheridae, Family Lithodidae, Lithodidae, Family Majidae, Majidae
Group relationships: Reptantia, Suborder Reptantia
Derivative terms: Brachyurous
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Member holonyms: Brachyuran, Crab, Genus Menippe, Menippe, Cancridae, Family Cancridae, Family Portunidae, Portunidae, Genus Uca, Uca, Family Pinnotheridae, Pinnotheridae, Family Lithodidae, Lithodidae, Family Majidae, Majidae
Group relationships: Reptantia, Suborder Reptantia
Derivative terms: Brachyurous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Brachyura
Literary usage of Suborder Brachyura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Zoology: An Introduction to the Study of Animals for Secondary by James Andrew Merrill (1902)
"Abdomen usually well developed. Crayfish, Lobster. 2. Suborder BRACHYURA.—Abdomen
small and concealed beneath cephalothorax more or less perfectly Crab. 4. ..."
2. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"suborder Brachyura. In the Brachyura the body is exceedingly compact, the abdomen
being very much reduced in size and usually destitute of a tail-fin, ..."
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