ACTIVITY #8ARTHROPODA

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ATLANTIC BLUE CRAB

Taxonomic AccountKingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ArthropodaSubphylum: CrustaceaClass: MalacostracaOrder: DecapodaInfraorder: BrachyuraFamily: OcypodidaeGenus: OcypodeSpecies:Scientific Name:

---Scientific Name:

Description:

GIANT TIGER PRAWN

SAND CRAB

Taxonomic AccountKingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ArthropodaSubphylum: CrustaceaClass: MalacostracaOrder: DecapodaSuborder: DendrobranchiataFamily: PenaeidaeGenus: PenaeusSpecies: monodonScientific Name:

Penaeus monodonCommon Name:

Giant tiger prawn

Taxonomic AccountKingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ArthropodaSubphylum: CrustaceaClass: MalacostracaOrder: DecapodaInfraorder: BrachyuraFamily: OcypodidaeGenus: OcypodeSpecies:Scientific Name:

---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:

FRESHWATER PRAWN

MUD CRAB

Taxonomic AccountKingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ArthropodaSubphylum: CrustaceaClass: MalacostracaOrder: DecapodaInfraorder: CarideaFamily: PalaemonidaeGenus: Macrobrachium

Common Name: “Freshwater prawn”

Taxonomic AccountKingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ArthropodaSubphylum: CrustaceaClass: MalacostracaOrder: DecapodaInfraorder: BrachyuraFamily: PortunidaeGenus: ScyllaSpecies: serrataScientific Name: Scylla serrataScientific Name: “Mud crab”

Description:

It is a genus of a freshwaterprawns orshrimpscharacterized by an extreme enlargement of the second pair of periopods, at least in the male.