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Fig. 10

From: New insights into the evolution of portunoid swimming crabs (Portunoidea, Heterotremata, Brachyura) and the brachyuran axial skeleton

Fig. 10

Examples showing characters concerned with anterior median plate extension (character 8), shape of dorsal median plate margin (character 11) and absence or presence of connections between interosternites and the median plate (characters 13–16) in axial skeletons seen from lateral (upper images) and from anterio-dorsal (lower images). In lateral view, number pair separated by backslash indicates thoracomeres between which the respective interosternite is situated. A Calappidae (Calappoidea), B Matutidae (Calappoidea), C Cancridae (Cancroidea), D Corystidae (Corystoidea), E Cheiragonidae (Corystoidea), F Carcinidae (Portunoidea)

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Frontiers in Zoology

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