Marine crabs of Diu, India

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1 Department of Life Sciences, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar-364002, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
2 Department of Marine Science, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar-364002, India, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
3 Department of Life Sciences,, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar-364002, India, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.26493v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Biodiversity, Ecology, Taxonomy
Keywords
Marine crabs, taxonomy, population ecology, Diu
Copyright
© 2018 Beleem et al.
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Beleem I, Poriya P, Gohil B. 2018. Marine crabs of Diu, India. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26493v1

Abstract

A total of 33 species of marine crabs belonging to 22 genera in 14 families are recorded from seven sites of Diu coast, India. Fudam coast comprised high diversity of marine crabs (21 species belonging to 15 genera in 09 families) followed by Khukri coast (23 species belonging to 17 genera in 11 families), Nagoa coast (20 species belonging to 16 genera in 12 families) and least crab diversity in Jalandhar coast (17 species belonging to 12 genera in 09 families). Each species is described with habitat and distribution. For population ecological survey seven dominant marine crabs species were selected based on their frequent occurrence i.e., Grapsus albolineatus, Charybdis (Charybdis) annulata, Leptodius affinis, Epixanthus frontalis, Eriphia smithii, Petrolisthes lamarckii and Metopograpsus thukuhar. Population ecological parameters like density, abundance and frequency were carried out through standard formula.

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