First record of three species of spider crabs from west coast of India (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)

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Published: Jun 4, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62400/jbs.v3i1.4603
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brachyura; new record; by-catch; Saurashtra coast; Gujarat

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Jigneshkumar Trivedi
Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India.
Swapnil Gosavi
Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Bar¬oda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
Kauresh Vachhrajani
Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Bar¬oda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

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The present study records occurrence of three species of spider crabs: Hyastenus hilgendorfi De Man, 1887 (Epialtidae), Hyastenus spinosus A. Milne-Edwards, 1872 (Epialtidae) and Paramaya mulli Ng, Prema & Ravichandran, 2018 (Majidae) for the first time from the west coast of India. These species were earlier reported from coastal areas of east coast of India. The diagnostic characteristics and some remarks on the taxonomy of each species are given in this paper.

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Trivedi, J., Gosavi, S., & Vachhrajani, K. (2020). First record of three species of spider crabs from west coast of India (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Biological Studies, 3(1), 24–29. https://doi.org/10.62400/jbs.v3i1.4603
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