Expansion of occurrence of two bat crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Parthenopidae) from the West to the Southeast Coast of India

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Ge Rameshkumar¹  Ramasamy Anbuchezhian²  So Ravichandran²  Ka Sivasubramaniyan² 

[1] Annamalai University

关键词: Bat crabs;    Brachyura;    India;    New occurrence;    Parthenopidae;   

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学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina * Centro de Ciencias Biologicas

【 摘 要 】

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2010v23n4p163 Studies of distribution of any marine organism are very important to know the span of expansion in the oceans and to find out the factors behind that occurrence. In the present study two species of crabs,Cryptopodia fornicataandCryptopodia angulata(Crustacea, Brachyura, Parthenopidae) were reported for the first time in the Point Calimere coastal region, Southeast Coast of India. All the specimens were found to be sexually mature. This is the rare occurrence of these two bat crabs in Indian Coast which expands in its known range. In the present observation records a second distributional area of the species and signifi cantly extends the range from the West coast to the Southeast coast of India.

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