Thoracotremata

Taxobox
name = Thoracotremata
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Brachyura
zoosectio = Eubrachyura
zoosubsectio = Thoracotremata
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = See text.

Thoracotremata is a clade of crabs, comprising those crabs in which the genital openings are on the sternum, rather than on the legs in both sexes.

uperfamilies and families

*Pinnotheroidea
**Pinnotheridae
*Ocypodoidea
**Camptandriidae
**Mictyridae
**Ocypodidae
**Palicidae
*Grapsoidea
**Gecarcinidae
**Glyptograpsidae
**Grapsidae
**Plagusiidae
**Sesarmidae
**Varunidae

References

*cite book |url=http://www.nhm.org/research/publications/CrustaceaClassification.pdf |title=An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea |author=Martin, J. W. & Davis, G. E. |year=2001 |pages=132 pp. |publisher=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County