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Scholtz, G.. |
Compared with the elongate bodies of shrimps or lobsters, crabs are characterised by a compact body organisation with a depressed, short carapace and a ventrally folded pleon. The evolutionary transformation from a lobster-like crustacean towards a crab is called ‘carcinization’ and has been interpreted as a dramatic morphological change. Nevertheless, the crab-shape evolved convergently in a number of lineages within Decapoda. Accordingly, numerous hypotheses about internal and external factors have been presented, which all try to explain these frequent convergent carcinization events despite the seemingly fundamental changes in the body organisation. However, what a crab is lies greatly in the eye of the beholder and most of the hypotheses about the... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Achelata; Anomala; Brachyura; Carcinization; Convergent evolution; Morphological concepts; 21.21; 42.74. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/471315 |
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McLaughlin, Patsy A.; Lemaitre, Rafael. |
Carcinization, or the process of becoming a crab, has been, and continues to be, a focal point of anomuran evolutionary hypotheses. Traditional examples of carcinization in the Anomura are most celebrated among hermit crabs but certainly are not limited to this group. Carcinization, if it has occurred, has done so independently in all major anomuran taxa. In this critique, the traditional examples of carcinization in the Anomura are reviewed and more modern variations on the theme assessed. Potential pathways of carcinization are examined from perspectives of adult morphology in the Paguroidea, Galatheoidea, Hippoidea and Lomoidea, with emphasis on the Paguroidea. Specific attention is given to the theoretical transformation of a hermit crab-like body form... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Carcinization; Anomura; Paguroidea; Galatheoidea; Hippoidea; Lomoidea; Paguridae; Lithodidae; Adult morphology; Phylogeny. |
Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/534415 |
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