Temporal range: Late Triassic: Norian - Recent, 227–0 Ma[1]
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The hermit crab Dardanus megistos
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Suborder:
Pleocyemata
(unranked):
Reptantia
Infraorder:
Anomura Macleay, 1838
Superfamilies
Aegloidea
Chirostyloidea
† Eocarcinoidea
Galatheoidea
Hippoidea
Lomisoidea
Paguroidea
Anomura (sometimes Anomala) is a group of decapod crustaceans, including hermit crabs and others. Although the names of many anomurans include the word crab, all true crabs are in the sister group to the Anomura, the Brachyura (the two groups together form the clade Meiura).[2]
^Chablais, Jérôme; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Schweitzer, Carrie E. (11 August 2010). "A new Triassic decapod, Platykotta akaina, from the Arabian shelf of the northern United Arab Emirates: earliest occurrence of the Anomura". Paläontol Z. 85 (2011): 93–102. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0080-y. S2CID 5612385.
^Gerhard Scholtz; Stefan Richter (1995). "Phylogenetic systematics of the reptantian Decapoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113 (3): 289–328. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00936.x.
Anomura (sometimes Anomala) is a group of decapod crustaceans, including hermit crabs and others. Although the names of many anomurans include the word...
and carcinised Anomura is the amount of leg pairs. While Brachyura (true) crabs have four pairs of legs used for locomotion, Anomura possess one much...
squat lobsters and porcelain crabs, they all belong to the infraorder Anomura, the sister taxon to Brachyura. However, the relationship of king crabs...
(lobsters and crabs). Brachyura is the sister clade to the infraorder Anomura, which contains the hermit crabs and relatives. The cladogram below shows...
of these species are crabs, with the shrimp (about 3,000 species) and Anomura including hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, squat lobsters (about 2500 species)...
Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea, which form part of the decapod infraorder Anomura, alongside groups including the hermit crabs and mole crabs. They are distributed...
(1993), p. 644 Greenaway, Peter (2003). "Terrestrial adaptations in the Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda)". Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 60 (1): 13–26. doi:10...
G. (1986). "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Aegla (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae), with comments on anomuran phylogeny". Journal of Crustacean...
(2006). "A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific–Antarctic Ridge" (PDF). Zoosystema...
around New Zealand, 77 living species of crabs (and 10 species of crab-like Anomura) have been recorded, along with a further 24 species of fossil crabs (marked...
Iuliana Lazăr; Günter Schweigert; Ovidiu D. Franţescu (2018). "Decapoda (Anomura; Brachyura) from the Late Jurassic of the Carpathians, Romania". Neues...
"Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) in the Atlantic Ocean". Monografías de Zoología Marina. 2: 9–153. ISBN 978-84-00-06807-3...
Lomisoidea), Hippoidea is one of the four groups that make up the infraorder Anomura. Of the four, Hippoidea is thought to be the most basal, with the other...
Enrique (1988). "Three new species of Paralomis (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Lithodidae) from the Pacific and Antarctic Oceans". Zoologica Scripta...
fourth pereiopod in the larvae of Lucifer, and some pleopods in certain Anomura and crabs. In a more extreme example, the Sacculina and other Rhizocephala...
species. Keiji Baba (1994). "Lauriea siagiani, a new galatheid (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from Bali, Indonesia". Crustacean Research. 23: 40–45. Enrique...
one species of hermit crab; one species of porcelain crab (infraorder Anomura); and eleven species of freshwater shrimp (infraorder Caridea). Family...
McLaughlin; Talbot Murray (1990). "Clibanarius fonticola, new species (Anomura: Paguridea: Diogenidae), from a fresh-water pool on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu"...
description of a new species from French Polynesia (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 31 (2): 209–232. doi:10.5252/z2009n2a1...
McLaughlin & Talbot Murray (1990). "Clibanarius fonticola, new species (Anomura: Paguridea: Diogenidae), from a fresh-water pool on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu"...
Markham, John (2003). "A worldwide list of hermit crabs and their relatives (Anomura: Paguroidea) reported as hosts of Isopoda Bopyridae". Memoirs of Museum...
from the second maxilla to the fifth pereiopod also bears a gill. In the Anomura (hermit crabs and related animals), the fifth pair of pereiopods is often...
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