NOUN
- an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface
How To Use Brachyura In A Sentence
- The taxon is unique among brachyurans due to its distinctive dorsal carapace ornamentation.
- This feature is present in crayfish, thalassinids, and anomalans but is presumably lost in brachyurans.
- A new genus and species of goneplacid crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Goneplacidae) from the Caribbean. All that matters
- Brachyuran Shifter ships poured themselves though the Dreen wormhole; in seconds they would deliquesce to reform light years away. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- The purpose of this study was to examine and identify Brachyuran zoea of the San Francisco Bay Estuary, then to generate a dichotomous key.
- Based upon the morphology of the chela and appendages and the orientation of the appendages with respect to the carapace, the new material is not referable to any macruran groups and must be a brachyuran.
- The assemblage of decapods, one macruran, one anomuran and two brachyurans, is one that would be anticipated in the offshore, relatively quiet water setting of a delta front.
- The freshwater crabs of Sri Lanka (Decapoda: Brachyura: Parathelphusidae). Biological diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
- Schram and Mapes erected the new genus, Imocaris, to contain the oldest known brachyuran, also from North America.
- Grazing and predation as related to energy needs of stage I zoeae of the Tanner crab Chinoectes bairdi (Brachyura, Majidae). Past variability in Arctic marine systems
