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Incidence of pseudohermaphroditism in the spiny lobster Panulirus homarus (linnaeus)

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Title Incidence of pseudohermaphroditism in the
spiny lobster Panulirus homarus (linnaeus)
 
Creator Radhakrishnan, E V
Vijayakumaran, M
Shahul Hameed, K
 
Subject Lobsters
 
Description Specimens of the spiny lobster, Panulirus homarus ranging in size from 22.3 - 97.5 mm carapace length
(67 - 245 mm total length) with well developed male genital system, but with biramous pleojxxls (as in
females) were recorded in 1987,1988 and 1989 from trammel net catches off Kovalam, near Madras. The
probable factors responsible for this sexual abnormality have been discussed.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1990
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/293/1/Article_16.pdf
Radhakrishnan, E V and Vijayakumaran, M and Shahul Hameed, K (1990) Incidence of pseudohermaphroditism in the spiny lobster Panulirus homarus (linnaeus). Indian Journal of Fisheries, 37 (2). pp. 169-170.