Subsection · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Heterotremata

WoRMS 106680key worms:106680

Silhouette · Mario Quevedo · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Carcinus maenas

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Heterotremata — Photo · Jason Alexander · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Heterotremata is a clade of crabs, comprising those crabs in which the genital openings are on the sternum in females, but on the legs in males. It comprises 68 families in 31 superfamilies.W CalCOFI holds 149 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1984 and 2014, across 2 taxa under it.R

149
observations: 836
records: 1984–2014
years: 1
datasets: 1
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

SF Cancroidea836

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:106680")

Heterotremata

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.