Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term...

quite dissimilar. The group has been moulded by several instances of carcinisation – the development of a crab-like body form. Thus, the king crabs (Lithodidae)...

have evolved features similar to true crabs through a process known as carcinisation. Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans, as well as in fresh water...

property of "-phyly", which they assert applies only to groups of species. Carcinisation Convergent evolution Urry, Lisa A. (2016). Campbell Biology (11th ed...

about this hypothesis, king crabs are the most widely quoted example of carcinisation among the Decapoda. The evidence for this explanation comes from the...

Aegla. It is clear, however, that Lomis represents a separate case of carcinisation. The name "Lomidae" may also be encountered, but is incorrect. McLaughlin...

size, or entirely absent. In both sexes, the uropods are biramous. Carcinisation has previously been explored in regards to outer morphology; however...

early Pliensbachian of England, which lacked the crab-like morphology (carcinisation) of modern crabs, and Eoprosopon klugi from the late Pliensbachian of...

is reduced and used for cleaning. Porcelain crabs are an example of carcinisation, whereby a noncrab-like animal (in this case a relative of a squat lobster)...

might lead to the impression that convergent evolution has occurred. Carcinisation – Evolution of crustaceans into crab-like forms Morphology (biology) –...

of around 20 millimetres (0.79 in). It displays an extreme form of carcinisation – evolution of a crab-like form – referred to as "hypercarcinisation"...

Borradaile interpreted Porcellanopagurus as being an independent instance of carcinisation among the Anomura. Porcellanopagurus contains the following species:...

known stem-group crab, but that it had not undergone the process of carcinisation. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009)....

worked extensively on crabs and similar animals, and coined the term "carcinisation" to describe "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab"....

true crab, but is now thought, like Platykotta, to show too little carcinisation to be a true crab, and is placed instead among the Anomura. Crustaceans...

whirling drumsticks halteres that are used like gyroscopes in flight. Carcinisation: A crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form...