1. ACTIVITY #8
ARTHROPODA
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ATLANTIC BLUE CRAB
Taxonomic Account
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ocypodidae
Genus: Ocypode
Species:
Scientific Name:
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Scientific Name:
Description:

2. GIANT TIGER PRAWN
SAND CRAB
Taxonomic Account
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Family: Penaeidae
Genus: Penaeus
Species: monodon
Scientific Name:
Penaeus monodon
Common Name:
Giant tiger prawn
Taxonomic Account
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Ocypodidae
Genus: Ocypode
Species:
Scientific Name:
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Scientific Name: Sand crab
Description:
Ghost crabs, also called
sand crabs, are crabs of the genus
Ocypode, common shore crabs in
many countries.
Characteristics of the
genus include one claw being
larger than the other, but this
difference is not as marked as in
male fiddler crabs.
Description:

3. FRESHWATER PRAWN
MUD CRAB
Taxonomic Account
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Palaemonidae
Genus: Macrobrachium
Common Name:
“Freshwater prawn”
Taxonomic Account
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Portunidae
Genus: Scylla
Species: serrata
Scientific Name: Scylla serrata
Scientific Name: “Mud crab”
Description:
It is a genus of a
freshwater
prawns or
shrimps
characterized
by an extreme
enlargement of
the second pair
of periopods, at
least in the
male.