Les Majoidea (du latin majo, « mai », nom donné par Linné en raison de leur abondance saisonnière au mois de mai[2]), sont une super-famille de crabes.
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↑Georges Fleury, La pêche à pied, Grasset, (lire en ligne), p. 57
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