Planes (crab)
Genus of crabs
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Planes is a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae that currently comprises three extant species:[2] Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758), Planes marinus Rathbun, 1914, and Planes major (=cyaneus) (MacLeay, 1838). A further fossil species is known[3] from the Middle Miocene of the Caucasus.[4]
| Planes Temporal range: | |
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| Planes minutus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Grapsidae |
| Genus: | Planes Bowdich, 1825 |
| Type species | |
| Planes clypeatus Bowdich, 1825[1] | |
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