Thumbnail crab

Thumbnail crab

Taxobox | name = Thumbnail crab


image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
familia = Thiidae
genus = "Thia"
species = "T. scutellata"
binomial = "Thia scutellata"
binomial_authority = (Fabricius, 1793)

The thumbnail crab, "Thia scutellata" is a species of crab whose carapace resembles a human thumbnail. It is found in the North Sea, north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea [cite web |url=http://www.imv.uit.no/crustikon/Decapoda/Decapoda2/Species_index/Thia_scutellata.htm |title=Crustikon: "Thia scutellata" (J.C. Fabricius, 1793) |publisher=Tromsø Museum |author=Cédric d'Udekem d'Acoz |year=2003] .

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