Species list, Checklist of Order Decapoda (Crabs) for Great Nicobar (Nicobar Islands, India)

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Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Order Decapoda Latreille, 1802 (Crabs)
and region Great Nicobar (Nicobar Islands, India)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	4 5 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	4 5 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	4 5 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	4 5 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Great Nicobar
4 Families width 5 Species

Sesarmidae Dana, 1851		2	Species	Taxom
Ocypodidae (Rafinesque, 1815)	Fiddler crabs	1	Species	Taxom
Plagusiidae Dana, 1851		1	Species	Taxom
Leucosiidae Samouelle, 1819	Nut crabs	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Great Nicobar
5 Genera with 5 Species

Metasesarma H. Milne Edw..., 1851		1	Species	Taxom
Ocypode Weber, 1772	Ghost Crab	1	Species	Taxom
Parasesarma De Man, 1803		1	Species	Taxom
Plagusia Latreille, 1790		1	Species	Taxom
Seulocia Galil, 1896		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Great Nicobar
5 Species

Metasesarma obesum Dana, 1851	Marble crab
Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772)	⇒ Ocypode ceratophthalma Pallas, 1772
Parasesarma plicatum Latreille, 1803
Plagusia squamosa Herbst, 1790	Rafting Crab
Seulocia truncata Alcock, 1896

Subnodes of Decapoda with occurrences in Great Nicobar

Suborder

Pleocyemata
Burkenroad, 1963

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Families
Genera
Species

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Links, sources and further information

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