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On Decapoda Brachyura from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – Families Portunidae, Ocypodidae, Grapsidae and Mictyridae.

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Title On Decapoda Brachyura from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – Families Portunidae, Ocypodidae, Grapsidae and Mictyridae.
 
Creator Sankarankutty, C
 
Subject Decapods
Crustacean Fisheries
Crabs
 
Description The present paper begins a series on the brachyuran fauna of the Andaman and
Nicobar Islands, and describes 29 species and a variety collected during February
to March 1960 from (1) Localities around Port Blair, viz. Bimbletan, South Point,
Corbins Cove, Aberdeen Bay, Phoenix Bay, North Bay and Kalapahad ; (2) Neil!
Island ; (3) Car Nicobar ; (4) Maya Bandar ; (5) Long Island ; and (6) Nancauri.
Of these reported in this account, 8 species and 1 variety are recorded for
the first time from this region.
Heller (1868) recorded 27 species of crabs belonging to the three famiUes Portunidae,
Ocypodidae, and Grapsidae. Alcock (1899 & 1900) in his ' Materials for
a Carcinological Fauna of India' described 35 species of portunids, 13 species of
ocypodids and 24 species of grapsoids from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
apart from Mictyris longicarpus Latreille. Later de Man (1908-09) reported Sesarma
thelxionae de Man ; Kemp (1919) Macrophthalmus pacificus Dana (=M. bicarinatus
Heller) and Dotilla wichmanni de Man and Chopra (1931) Lissocarcinus ornatus
Chopra from the same region.
The collections were made mainly from the coral reefs and the intertidal region,
vast areas of which get exposed during the ebb tide. A number of specimens were
collected from the submerged reef with the help of a mask and snorkel. Portunids
were mainly collected with a small dredge operated at 10 metres in the Aberdeen
Bay, Port Blair.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1961
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/873/1/Article_11.pdf
Sankarankutty, C (1961) On Decapoda Brachyura from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – Families Portunidae, Ocypodidae, Grapsidae and Mictyridae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 3 (1 & 2). pp. 101-119.