Thumbnail crab

"Thia" redirects here. For other uses, see Thia (disambiguation).
Thumbnail crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Thiidae
Subfamily: Thiinae
Dana, 1852
Genus: Thia
Leach, 1815
Species: T. scutellata
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 crab whose carapace resembles a human thumbnail. It is found in the North Sea, north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.[2] It is the only extant species in the genus Thia, although two fossil species are known.[3]

References

  1. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286.
  2. Cédric d'Udekem d'Acoz (2003). "Thia scutellata (J.C. Fabricius, 1793)". Crustikon. Tromsø Museum. Archived from the original on February 29, 2008. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
  3. 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.
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