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Lithodidae

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Lithodidae [lə′thäd·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
The king crabs, a family of anomuran decapods in the superfamily Paguridea distinguished by reduced last pereiopods and by the asymmetrical arrangement of the abdominal plates in the female.
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Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Distribution, demography, and discard mortality of crabs caught as ... by Purves, Martin G.; Agnew, David J.; Moreno, Guillermo; Daw, Tim; Yau, Cynthia; Pilling, Graham / Fishery Bulletin
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).
Embryo development and morphometry in the blue king crab Paralithodes ... by Stevens, Bradley G. / Journal of Shellfish Research
 
 
 
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