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Figure 1: Velcro crab. Source: Michael Pollack. Permission granted. [30] |
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Figure 2: Undecorated Velcro crab. Adapted from: Martin Lagerway. Obtained and accredited under fair use. Edited by: Nicolette Loo. [31] |
Figure 3: Hooked setae and man-made Velcro. (a) and (c) were photographed under a scanning electron microscope. (b) and (d) were photographed under a dissecting microscope. Source: Kristin Hultgren. Permission granted. Edited by: Nicolette Loo. [32] |
Figure 4: Can you spot the Velcro crab? Source: Ow Yong Wei Long. [33] |
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Figure 5: A Velcro crab decorates itself to look like the rock it is on. Source: Patrick Randall. Obtained and accredited under fair use. [34] |
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Figures 6 (left) & 7 (right): The chelipeds of the Velcro crabs are left undecorated. Adapted from: Ria Tan. Permission granted. Edited by: Nicolette Loo. [37][38] |
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Figure 8: A Sheep crab with a layer of algae on its carapace. Source: Klaus Stiefel. Obtained and accredited under fair use. [40] |
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Figure 9: Velcro crab. Source: Ria Tan. Obtained and accredited under fair use. [41] |
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Figure 10: Global distribution of the Velcro crab (Camposcia retusa). Source: Discover Life. For public use. [42] |
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Figure 11: Different zones of a coastal habitat. Illustration by: Soren Henrich. Permission granted. [43] |
Kingdom |
Animalia |
Phylum |
Arthropoda |
Subphylum |
Crustacea |
Class |
Malacostraca |
Order |
Decapoda |
Infraorder |
Brachyura |
Superfamily |
Majoidea |
Family |
Inachidae |
Genus |
Camposcia |
Species |
Camposcia retusa |
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Figure 12: Record of Maia retusa in Latreille (1829). Source: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr. Not in copyright. [44] |
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Figure 13: Record of Camposcia in Latreille (1829). Source: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr. Not in copyright. [45] |
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Figure 14: Phylogenetic tree of the decorator crabs (superfamily: Majoidea), shown as a Bayesian consensus tree. Adapted from: Hultgren & Stachowicz (2008). Permission granted. Edited by: Nicolette Loo. [46] |
Table 1: Bootstrap (maximum likelihood) and posterior-probability (Bayesian) values for selected clades resolved by single-locus and combined dataset trees using different methods. By Hultgren & Stachowicz (2008). [47] |