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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectio: Eubrachyura
Subsectio: Thoracotremata
Superfamiliae: Cryptochiroidea - Grapsoidea - Ocypodoidea - Pinnotheroidea

Name

Thoracotremata Guinot, 1977
References

Peter K.L. Ng, Daniele Guinot & Peter J.F. Davie (2008) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement. 17, ss. 1–286 PDF

Vernacular names
中文: 胸孔亚派

Thoracotremata is a clade of crabs, comprising those crabs in which the genital openings in both sexes are on the sternum, rather than on the legs. It comprises 17 families in four superfamilies .[1]
Evolution

Thoracotremata is the sister group to Heterotremata within the clade Eubrachyura, having diverged during the Cretaceous period. Eubrachyura itself is a subset of the larger clade Brachyura, which consists of all "true crabs". A summary of the high-level internal relationships within Brachyura can be shown in the cladogram below: [2][3]

Brachyura

Dromiacea

Raninoida

Cyclodorippoida

Eubrachyura

Heterotremata

Thoracotremata

The internal relationships within Thoracotremata are less certain, with many of the superfamilies found to be invalid. The proposed cladogram below is from analysis by Tsang et al, 2014:[2]

Thoracotremata

Pinnotheridae

Dotillidae

Percnidae

Xenograpsidae

Cryptochiridae

Ocypodidae

Glyptograpsidae

Grapsidae

Plagusiidae

Gecarcinidae

Sesarmidae

Mictyridae

Varunidae

Macrophthalmidae

Macrophthalmidae
Superfamilies and families

  • Ocypodoidea
    • Camptandriidae
    • Dotillidae
    • Heloeciidae
    • Macrophthalmidae
    • Mictyridae
    • Ocypodidae
    • Ucididae
    • Xenophthalmidae
  • Pinnotheroidea
    • Pinnotheridae
  • Cryptochiroidea
    • Cryptochiridae
  • Grapsoidea
    • Gecarcinidae
    • Glyptograpsidae
    • Grapsidae
    • Plagusiidae
    • Sesarmidae
    • Varunidae
    • Xenograpsidae

However, recent studies have found the superfamilies Grapsoidea and Ocypodoidea to be polyphyletic and invalid.[2][3]
References

Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
Ling Ming Tsang; Christoph D. Schubart; Shane T. Ahyong; Joelle C.Y. Lai; Eugene Y.C. Au; Tin-Yam Chan; Peter K.L. Ng; Ka Hou Chu (2014). "Evolutionary History of True Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) and the Origin of Freshwater Crabs". Molecular Biology and Evolution. Oxford University Press . 31 (5): 1173–1187. doi:10.1093/molbev/msu068.
Wolfe, Joanna M.; Breinholt, Jesse W.; Crandall, Keith A.; Lemmon, Alan R.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Timm, Laura E.; Siddall, Mark E.; Bracken-Grissom, Heather D. (24 April 2019). "A phylogenomic framework, evolutionary timeline and genomic resources for comparative studies of decapod crustaceans". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286 (1901). doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0079. PMC 6501934. PMID 31014217.

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