Zoosubsection
Thoracotremata (Thoracotrematan crabs)
Hemigrapsus nudus. Photo: (c) Dan Hershman, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Thoracotremata is a clade of crabs, comprising those crabs in which the genital openings in both sexes are on the sternum, rather than on the legs. It comprises 17 families in four superfamilies .
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Crustacea (Crustaceans)
- Superclass: Multicrustacea (Typical crustaceans)
- Class: Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca (Decapods, isopods, and allies)
- Superorder: Eucarida (Decapods and krill)
- Order: Decapoda (Decapods)
- Suborder: Pleocyemata (Crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and allies)
- Infraorder: Brachyura (True crabs)
- Zoosection: Eubrachyura (Eubrachyuran crabs)
- Zoosubsection: Thoracotremata (Thoracotrematan crabs)
- Zoosection: Eubrachyura (Eubrachyuran crabs)
- Infraorder: Brachyura (True crabs)
- Suborder: Pleocyemata (Crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and allies)
- Order: Decapoda (Decapods)
- Superorder: Eucarida (Decapods and krill)
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca (Decapods, isopods, and allies)
- Class: Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
- Superclass: Multicrustacea (Typical crustaceans)
- Subphylum: Crustacea (Crustaceans)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
