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Keavie
Temporal range:Jurassic–Recent
Liocarcinus vernalis
Scientific classificatione
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Cless: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Linnaeus,1758
Sections an subsections[1]

Keaviesaredecapodcrustaceanso the infraorderBrachyura,which teepically hae a very short projectin "tail"(Greek:βραχύς,romanised:brachys= short,[2]οὐρά/οura= tail[3]), uisually entirely hidden unner thethorax.

References

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  1. 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. Archived fraethe original(PDF)on 6 Juin 2011.Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (help)
  2. Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott."βραχύς".A Greek–English Lexicon.Perseus Digital Library.Retrieved24 Mey2010.
  3. Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott."οὐρά".A Greek–English Lexicon.Perseus Digital Library.Retrieved24 Mey2010.