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Rajeev Raghavan ¹, Neelesh Dahanukar ², J. D. Marcus Knight ³, A. Bijukumar ⁴, Unmesh Katwate ⁵, K. Krishnakumar ⁶, Anvar Ali ⁶, Siby Philip ⁶

Affiliations
1 Conservation Research Group, St Albert’s College, Kochi 682 018, IN
2 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune 411 008, IN
3 Flat L, Sri Balaji Apartments, 7th Main Road, Dhandeeswaram, Velachery, Chennai 600 042, IN
4 Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram 695 581, IN
5 Conservation Department, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai 400 001, IN
6 Conservation Research Group, St Albert’s College, Kochi 682 018, IN

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R. Reshmi ¹, A. Bijukumar ¹

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1 Department of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram 695581, Kerala, IN

Abstract

Anomuran crabs are best described by having an assortment of adult body shapes from lobsterlike tocrab-like;markedlyreducedfifthpereopods, the articulated or missing eighth thoracic sternite and the cephalothorax that is not fused to the epistome as it is in brachyurans (McLaughlin et al., 2010). Anomura is represented by six superfamilies;Aegloidea, Hippoidea, Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea, Paguroidea and Galatheoidea.

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