chamber (under the carapace) to be used for cleaning the gills. Since this arrangement is very rare in true crabs (for example, the small family Hexapodidae), a "crab" with only eight visible pereiopods is generally an anomuran.

Evolution

The infraorder Anomura belongs to the group Reptantia, which consists of the walking/crawling decapods (lobsters

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