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Lithodidae

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Noun1.Lithodidae - deep-sea crabs of cold waters
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
Brachyura, suborder Brachyura - an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface
genus Paralithodes, Paralithodes - a genus of Lithodidae


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Unlike crabs in the families Lithodidae and Paguridae, Aegla platensis, a riverine anomuran in Brazil, develops through the zoea and decapodid stages (equivalent to the megalops or glaucothoe) inside the egg and hatches alter 35 d (Lizardo-Daudt and Bond-Buckup 2003).
 
 
 
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