Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata

Brachyura Latreille, 1802

Rank: Infraorder
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Infraorder group names

*Podotremata*	Guinot, 1977	synonym

Children

Cyclodorippoida Ahyong, Lai, Sharkey, Colgan & Ng, 2007
Dromiacea De Haan, 1833
Eubrachyura de Saint Laurent, 1980
Homoloida Karasawa, Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2011
Potamonidae
Raninoida Ahyong, Lai, Sharkey, Colgan & Ng, 2007

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: echte krabben; krabben sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;de Ruijter, E.; Schoenmaker, A. (Ed.) (1989). Zeeboek [The sea book]. 2nd revised ed. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij JBU / Stichting Uitgeverij KNNV: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5107-007-1. 238 pp.

English: crabs

French: crabe

German: Echte Krabben; Kurzschwanzkrebse sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: 短尾下目 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: krabbor

Literature

original description	Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 14 vols.:413 pp.
basis of record	Ng, P.K.L.; Guinot, D.; Davie, P.J.F. (2008). Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of the extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1-286.
additional source	Karasawa, H.; Schweitzer, C.E.; Feldmann, R.M. (2011). Phylogenetic analysis and revised classification of podotrematous Brachyura (Decapoda) including extinct and extant families. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 31(3): 523–565.
additional source	Poore, G.C.B.; Ahyong, S.T. (2023). Marine decapod Crustacea: a guide to the families and genera of the world. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. xii + 916 pp.
taxonomy source	Poore, G. C. B. (2016). The names of the higher taxa of Crustacea Decapoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36, 248-255.