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Fig. 35

From: New insights into the evolution of portunoid swimming crabs (Portunoidea, Heterotremata, Brachyura) and the brachyuran axial skeleton

Fig. 35

Character states and ancestral state reconstructions of states that unambiguously show whether a taxon is a P5-swimming crab. Character state combinations of each extant species and several ancestral stem species are indicated by different coloured dots, with dot position representing the character and colour (sometimes with symbol) representing the states. Note that symbols above taxa names indicate whether an extant species is assigned to the P5-swimming crab morphotype or considered to be specialised in burying and/or swimming that is different from P5-swimming and that symbols above the nodes of the cladogram indicate whether any reconstructed stem species can be assigned to the P5-swimming crab morphotype

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