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 | | Throughout the whole, the researches made since 1860 have not only added a great throng of new species, genera and families, but have thrown a flood of light upon questions of their phylogeny, systematic arrangement, horizontal and bathymetric distrjbution, organization, habits of life and economic importance. |
 | | Between the Brachyura and Macrura some authors uphold an order Anomura, though in a much restricted sense, the labors of Huxley, Boas, Alcock and conjointly Alphonse Mime-Edwards and Bouvier, having resulted in restoring the Dromiidea and Raninidae to the Brachyura, among which de Haan long ago placed them. |
 | | The French authors argue that from the macruran lobsters (Nephropsidae) anciently diverged two lines: one leading through the Dromiidea to the genuine Brachyura; or crabs, the other independently to the Anomura proper, which may conveniently be named and classed as Macrura anomala. |
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