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Anomura
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Anomura [‚an·ə′mu̇r·ə]
(vertebrate zoology)
A section of the crustacean order Decapoda that includes lobsterlike and crablike forms.


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2002), brachyurans (0-50%, Hill and Wassenberg, 1990; Wassenberg and Hill, 1993; Kaiser and Spencer, 1995) and anomurans (0-19%, Kaiser and Spencer, 1995).
Unlike crabs in the families Lithodidae and Paguridae, Aegla platensis, a riverine anomuran in Brazil, develops through the zoea and decapodid stages (equivalent to the megalops or glaucothoe) inside the egg and hatches alter 35 d (Lizardo-Daudt and Bond-Buckup 2003).
KEY WORDS: subantarctic, Anomura, reproductive cycle, squat lobster, Munida gregaria INTRODUCTION The anomuran crab, Munida subrugosa (White, 1847) attains length 5-7 cm, and nearly 15-g wet mass, that lives off southern South America, New Zealand and southern Australia (Boschi et al.
 
 
 
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