For instance, the blue crab and Dungeness crabs, which are part of the Brachyura group, are considered true crabs because of ...

The researchers compared the shield shapes of "true" crabs (Brachyura) and "false" crabs (Anomura), the latter of which ...

AN important addition to our knowledge of development in the Brachyura is contained in Hiroaki ... the young of twenty-four species of Japanese crabs, and from these first zoeas each genus can ...

It wasn’t until the early Jurassic period, tens of millions years after the first cycloids were around, that the first of what we think of as real crabs -- members of infraorder Brachyura ...

Indeed, they are even more related to hermit crabs and are placed in the infraorder Anomura. On the other hand, snow crabs are true crabs in the infraorder Brachyura.