An illustrated key to the fiddler crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from the Atlantic coast of Brazil

Fiddler crabs are one of the most notable animal groups in Brazilian estuarine environments, due to their high density and characteristic waving of males. An illustrated key to the ten species recorded as far in the country is provided using only clearly visible characters of males. Furthermore, add...

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Autores principales: Masunari, Setuko, Martins, Salise Brandt, Anacleto, André Fernando Miyadi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7324410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32624673
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.943.52773
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author Masunari, Setuko
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description Fiddler crabs are one of the most notable animal groups in Brazilian estuarine environments, due to their high density and characteristic waving of males. An illustrated key to the ten species recorded as far in the country is provided using only clearly visible characters of males. Furthermore, additional recognition characters, information about geographic distribution and biology of each species are presented. Most examined crabs were collected in Guaratuba Bay, southern Brazil.
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spelling pubmed-73244102020-07-02 An illustrated key to the fiddler crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from the Atlantic coast of Brazil Masunari, Setuko Martins, Salise Brandt Anacleto, André Fernando Miyadi Zookeys Research Article Fiddler crabs are one of the most notable animal groups in Brazilian estuarine environments, due to their high density and characteristic waving of males. An illustrated key to the ten species recorded as far in the country is provided using only clearly visible characters of males. Furthermore, additional recognition characters, information about geographic distribution and biology of each species are presented. Most examined crabs were collected in Guaratuba Bay, southern Brazil. Pensoft Publishers 2020-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7324410/ /pubmed/32624673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.943.52773 Text en Setuko Masunari, Salise Brandt Martins, André Fernando Miyadi Anacleto http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Masunari, Setuko
Martins, Salise Brandt
Anacleto, André Fernando Miyadi
An illustrated key to the fiddler crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from the Atlantic coast of Brazil
title An illustrated key to the fiddler crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from the Atlantic coast of Brazil
title_full An illustrated key to the fiddler crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from the Atlantic coast of Brazil
title_fullStr An illustrated key to the fiddler crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from the Atlantic coast of Brazil
title_full_unstemmed An illustrated key to the fiddler crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from the Atlantic coast of Brazil
title_short An illustrated key to the fiddler crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) from the Atlantic coast of Brazil
title_sort illustrated key to the fiddler crabs (crustacea, decapoda, ocypodidae) from the atlantic coast of brazil
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7324410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32624673
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.943.52773
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