Species list, Checklist of Infraorder Brachyura (Crabs) for Puttalam (North Western Province, Sri Lanka)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Infraorder Brachyura Linnaeus, 1758 (Crabs)
and region Puttalam (North Western Province, Sri Lanka)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	2 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	2 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	1 2 2	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	1 2 2	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	1 2 2	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Brachyura Linnaeus, 1758 Crabs, Short-tailed crabs, True crabs	1 2 2	Family Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Puttalam
1 Family width 2 Species

Ocypodidae (Rafinesque, 1815)

Fiddler crabs

Species

Taxom

Genera for Puttalam
2 Genera with 2 Species

Austruca Bott, 1837		1	Species	Taxom
Ocypode Weber, 1772	Ghost Crab	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Puttalam
2 Species

Austruca annulipes H. Milne Edw..., 1837	Fiddler Crab
Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772)	⇒ Ocypode ceratophthalma Pallas, 1772

Subnodes of Brachyura with occurrences in Puttalam

Section

Eubrachyura
de Saint Laurent, 1980

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Links, sources and further information

Brachyura at artfakta.se
Brachyura at biodiversity.org.au
Brachyura at dyntaxa.se
Brachyura at gbif.org
Brachyura at itis.gov
Brachyura at marinespecies.org