Eriphioidea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Eriphioidea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Eriphioidea
Eriphioidea is a superfamily of crabs. It contains six families:
- Dairoididae Števčić, 2005
- Eriphiidae MacLeay, 1838
- Hypothalassiidae Karasawa & Schweitzer, 2006
- Menippidae Ortmann, 1893
- Oziidae Dana, 1851
- Platyxanthidae Guinot, 1977
The families are united by a number of characters, including a marked difference in size between the left and right claws, where the larger one has a crushing tooth, and the smaller one does not, and the relative breadth of the male abdomen.
...Eriphioidea in languages:
- Chinese
- 酋婦蟹總科
- Japanese
- イワオウギガニ上科
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