Keavies are decapod crustaceans o the infraorder Brachyura, which teepically hae a very short projectin "tail" (Greek: βραχύς, romanised: brachys = short,[2] οὐρά / οura = tail[3]), uisually entirely hidden unner the thorax.

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Keavie
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
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Liocarcinus vernalis
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Cless: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Linnaeus, 1758
Sections an subsections[1]
  • Dromiacea
  • Raninoida
  • Cyclodorippoida
  • Eubrachyura
    • Heterotremata
    • Thoracotremata
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