"Brachyura" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An infraorder of chiefly marine, largely carnivorous CRUSTACEA, in the order DECAPODA, including the genera Cancer, Uca, and Callinectes.
| Descriptor ID |
D003386
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.365.190.110
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| Concept/Terms |
Brachyura- Brachyura
- Brachyuras
- Crabs, Short-Tailed
- Crab, Short-Tailed
- Crabs, Short Tailed
- Short-Tailed Crab
- Short-Tailed Crabs
- Crabs, True
- Crab, True
- True Crab
- True Crabs
Carcinus maenas- Carcinus maenas
- Carcinus maena
- maenas, Carcinus
- European Shore Crab
- Crab, European Shore
- Shore Crab, European
- Green Crab
- Crabs, Green
- Green Crabs
- Crab, Green
- Crab, Common Shore
- Common Shore Crabs
- Crabs, Common Shore
- Shore Crab, Common
- Shore Crabs, Common
- Common Shore Crab
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