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Range extension of brachyuran crabs along the Baja California coast, Mexico (Crustacea: Decapoda)

open access: yesCiencias Marinas, 1998
 The study of brachyuran crabs collected from intertidal areas of the upper Gulf of California and the west coast of the Baja California peninsula, at Tortugas Bay, Baja California Sur, has produced a northern range extension for the following species ...
E Campos, G López
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Grooming behaviors and fouling of the spider crab Libinia dubia (Decapoda: Epialtidae)

open access: yesNauplius
Body fouling has been reduced by grooming behaviors. In decapods, grooming has been focused on gills, sensory structures, and jointed appendages. In this study, grooming behaviors of the spider crab, Libinia dubia H.
Jen L. Wortham, Jace Jedlicka
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Spatial distribution and population structure of fiddler crabs in an Indian Sundarban mangrove

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2015
Brachyuran crabs constitute the most abundant faunal component of mangrove ecosystems and support a wide range of ecosystem services. In the present study, seasonal variation of population density and biomass along with demographic categories and sex ...
Shilpa Sen, Sumit Homechaudhuri
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Description of the first juvenile stage of Dilocarcinus septemdentatus (Herbst, 1783) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Trichodactylidae)

open access: yesNauplius, 2017
A total of 38 freshwater brachyuran species occur in Brazil, of which 79% are distributed in the northern region. However, for only two species of freshwater crabs are descriptions available for their juveniles.
Cleverson Rannieri Meira dos Santos   +1 more
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Expansion of southern distributional range of Ucides occidentalis (Decapoda: Ucididae) and Cardisoma crassum (Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)

open access: yesRevista Peruana de Biología, 2017
Is recorded the species of crabs brachyuran Ucides occidentalis (mangrove crab) and Cardisoma crassum (Blue crab or without mouth) in the mangroves of San Pedro (Piura), expanding its geographical distribution south of Tumbes, which was the known limit ...
Solange Alemán, Elmer Ordinola
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Multiformity and Economic Importance of True Brachyuran Crabs

open access: yesEdelweiss Applied Science and Technology, 2018
The brachyuran crabs are diversified and widely distributed habitant throughout the world, apart from Antarctica, they are reported from all the niches of network. They are dominant in all over estuaries and found in unfathomable depths of the Ocean down to 6000m and in the high mountains up to 3500 m above the sea level.Numerous species have evolved ...
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Vertical migration behavior and larval transport in brachyuran crabs [PDF]

open access: yesMarine Ecology Progress Series, 1999
Funding for equipment and supplies was provided by the NOAA Office of Sea Grant, U.S. Department of Commerce, Grant no. NA-9OAA-D-SG-45 to the Virginia Graduate Marine Science Consortium and Virginia Sea Grant College Program. Financial support for the author was generously provided by the Willard A. Van Engel Foundation.
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