Keavie

Keavies are decapod crustaceans o the infraorder Brachyura, which teepically hae a very short projectin "tail" (Greek: βραχύς, romanised: brachys = short,[2] οὐρά / οura = tail[3]), uisually entirely hidden unner the thorax.

Keavie
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
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Liocarcinus vernalis
Scientific classification e
Kinrick:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacea
Cless:Malacostraca
Order:Decapoda
Suborder:Pleocyemata
Infraorder:Brachyura
Linnaeus, 1758
Sections an subsections[1]
  • Dromiacea
  • Raninoida
  • Cyclodorippoida
  • Eubrachyura
    • Heterotremata
    • Thoracotremata

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