Thumbnail crab
"Thia" redirects here. For other uses, see Thia (disambiguation).
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Thiidae |
| Subfamily: | Thiinae Dana, 1852 |
| Genus: | Thia Leach, 1815 |
| Species: | T. scutellata |
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| Thia scutellata (Fabricius, 1793) |
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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.[2] It is the only extant species in the genus Thia, although two fossil species are known.[3]
References
- ^ Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286.
- ^ Cédric d'Udekem d'Acoz (2003). "Thia scutellata (J.C. Fabricius, 1793)". Crustikon. Tromsø Museum. Archived from the original on February 29, 2008. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
- ^ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
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