Biology:Thumbnail crab

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Thumbnail crab
Scientific classification edit
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Animalia
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Arthropoda
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Malacostraca
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Decapoda
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Pleocyemata
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Brachyura
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Thiidae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Thia
Leach, 1815
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Binomial name
Thia scutellata
(Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cancer residuus Herbst, 1799
  • Thia polita Leach, 1815
  • Thia blainvillii Risso, 1822

The thumbnail crab, Thia scutellata, is a species of decapods, in the family of thiidae,[2] whose carapace resembles a human thumbnail, a dense fringe of long hairs distinctly notched around the edge.[3] Pale pink in colour with red to brown markings. It is found in the North Sea, north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.[4] It is the only extant species in the genus Thia, although two fossil species are known.[5] Their predators includes the atlantic cod.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2704240 entry ceb:Thiidae