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Raninoidea

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Raninoida is a taxonomic section of the crabs, containing a single extant superfamily, Raninoidea, and two extinct, Necrocarcinoidea and Palaeocorystoidea. This group of crabs is unlike most, with the abdomen not being folded under the thorax. As of 2009, it comprised 46 extant species, and nearly 200 species known only from fossils.

Species

アサヒガニ上科

Superfamily

  1. PhylumArthropoda
  2. ClassMalacostraca
  3. OrderDecapoda
Habitatmarine

Les Raninoidea sont une super-famille de crabes. Elle comprend cinq familles dont trois fossiles.

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Raninoidea
taxon name
Raninoidea
taxon rank
superfamily
topic's main category
Category:Raninoidea
taxon author citation
De Haan, 1839
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Raninoida is a taxonomic section of the crabs, containing a single extant superfamily, Raninoidea, and two extinct, Necrocarcinoidea and Palaeocorystoidea. This group of crabs is unlike most, with the abdomen not being folded under the thorax. As of 2009, it comprised 46 extant species, and nearly 200 species known only from fossils.

== Classification == Below is a cladogram showing Raninoidea's placement within Brachyura:

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