The Majoidea are a superfamily of crabs which includes the various spider crabs. In "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans"...
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Goneplacoidea (182, 94†) Hexapodoidea (21, 25†) Leucosioidea (488, 113†) Majoidea (980, 89†) Orithyioidea (1) Palicoidea (63, 6†) Parthenopoidea (144, 36†)...
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Decorator crab (category Majoidea)
crabs are crabs of several different species, belonging to the superfamily Majoidea (not all of which are decorators), that use materials from their environment...
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Goneplacoidea MacLeay, 1838 Hexapodoidea Miers, 1886 Leucosioidea Samouelle, 1819 Majoidea Samouelle, 1819 Orithyioidea Dana, 1852c Palicoidea Bouvier, 1898 Parthenopoidea...
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Dorippoidea Eriphioidea Gecarcinucoidea Goneplacoidea Hexapodoidea Leucosioidea Majoidea Orithyioidea Palicoidea Parthenopoidea Pilumnoidea Portunoidea Potamoidea...
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Japanese spider crab (category Majoidea)
(Temminck, 1836) zoeas with a discussion of the classification of the Majoidea Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea: Brachyura)". Journal of Natural History. 25...
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simultaneously.[citation needed] Crustaceans portal Alaskan king crab fishing Majoidea De Grave, Sammy; Pentcheff, N. Dean; Ahyong, Shane T.; et al. (2009). "A...
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Libinia spinosa (category Majoidea)
Lychnorhiza lucerna. Libinia spinosa is a member of the crab superfamily Majoidea which are commonly known as the spider crabs. The carapaces of this organism...
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Chionoecetes opilio (category Majoidea)
Chionoecetes opilio, a species of snow crab, also known as opilio crab or opies, is a predominantly epifaunal crustacean native to shelf depths in the...
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Chionoecetes bairdi (category Majoidea)
Chionoecetes bairdi is a species of snow crab, alternatively known as bairdi crab and tanner crab. C. bairdi is closely related to Chionoecetes opilio...
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Chionoecetes (category Majoidea)
Chionoecetes is a genus of crabs that live in the northern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Common names for crabs in this genus include "queen crab" (in Canada)...
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Camposcia retusa (category Majoidea)
Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Superfamily: Majoidea Family: Inachidae Genus: Camposcia Species: C. retusa Binomial name Camposcia...
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Mithrax spinosissimus (category Majoidea)
the largest brachyuran in the western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Majoidea)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom....
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Libinia emarginata (category Majoidea)
of the forward walking crab, Libinia emarginata (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea)". Arthropod Structure & Development. 38 (3): 179–194. doi:10.1016/j.asd...
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Maja squinado (category Majoidea)
Maja squinado (the European spider crab, spiny spider crab or spinous spider crab) is a species of migratory crab found in the north-east Atlantic and...
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of the forward walking crab, Libinia emarginata (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea)". Arthropod Structure & Development. 38 (3): 179–194. doi:10.1016/j.asd...
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Acanthonyx (category Majoidea)
Acanthonyx is a genus of crabs, in the family Epialtidae. Species so far known include: Acanthonyx consobrinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862 Acanthonyx dentatus...
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Inachidae (category Majoidea)
Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Superfamily: Majoidea Family: Inachidae MacLeay, 1838...
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Macropodia rostrata (category Majoidea)
Macropodia rostrata, common names, the common spider crab, long-legged spider crab, long-legged crab, is a species of marine crab in the family Inachidae...
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of the forward walking crab, Libinia emarginata (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea)". Arthropod Structure & Development. 38 (3): 179–194. doi:10.1016/j.asd...
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Mithrax (category Majoidea)
taxonomic reanalysis of the family Mithracidae MacLeay (Decapoda : Brachyura: Majoidea)". Invertebrate Systematics. 28 (2): 145. doi:10.1071/IS13011. S2CID 85848892...
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Oregonia (crab) (category Majoidea)
classified in the family Oregoniidae under the spider crab superfamily Majoidea. The members of the genus are characterized by subtriangular or suboblong...
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Hoplophrys (category Majoidea)
Hoplophrys is a monotypic genus of crab in the family Epialtidae. It contains the single species Hoplophrys oatesi, also known as the candy crab, Oates's...
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Majidae (category Majoidea)
Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Superfamily: Majoidea Family: Majidae Samouelle, 1819 Subfamilies Eurynolambrinae Majinae Micromaiinae...
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Achaeus japonicus (category Majoidea)
Achaeus japonicus, sometimes known as the orang-utan crab, is a crab of the family Inachidae (spider crabs or decorator crabs) which can be observed in...
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described as a decorator crab despite not belonging to the superfamily Majoidea. They mainly feed on small organisms and decaying flesh of dead animals...
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et al. Miocene (Messinian) Algeria A crab belonging to the superfamily Majoidea and the family Oregoniidae. The type species is "Hyas" oranensis Van Straelen...
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Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Superfamily: Majoidea Family: Mithracidae...
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Great spider crab (category Majoidea)
The great spider crab, Hyas araneus, is a species of crab found in northeast Atlantic waters and the North Sea, usually below the tidal zone. In 1986,...
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genus of deep-sea inachid spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea), with descriptions of two new species from the Philippines, Papua New...
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