Definitions

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• Anterior median region of dorsal carapace between orbits and gastric region; or in crabs the margin between the orbits. [Poore, 2004]
• Frontal portion of carapace; that portion of crab carapace lying between orbits. [Williams, 1984]
• Part of crab carapace between orbits. [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• The anterior margin of the carapace between each first antero-lateral tooth. [Ingle, 1983]
• The margin of that portion of the carapace of crabs lying between the orbits; often used interchangeably with frontal region. [Chace and Hobbs, 1969]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) In crab-like (brachyuran) decapod, median anterior margin of carapace between orbits. (defected, deflexed, sinuous, triangular, tridentate, trilobate, truncate).
  (syn. frontal margin) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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