Fig. 11
Examples showing characters concerned with anterior median plate extension (character 8), length of median plate anterior process (if present; character 10), 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). Number pair separated by backslash in lateral view indicates thoracomeres between which the respective interosternite is situated. A–E Carcinidae (Portunoidea), F Portunidae (Portunoidea)