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On some crabs (Decapoda-Brachyura) from the Laccadive Archipelago

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Title On some crabs (Decapoda-Brachyura) from the Laccadive
Archipelago
 
Creator Sankarankutty, C
 
Subject Decapods
Crabs
 
Description EARLIER investigations on the brachyuran fauna of the Maldive and Laccadive
Archipelagos were initiated by Alcock (1895, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1899b and 1900) ;
who recorded 43 species of crabs belonging to 9 families. Subsequently, Borradaile
(1903 and 1906) reported 191 species including 27 already described by Alcock ;
which brought up the total record from this region to 207 species. The present
account deals with 36 species of which 5 have hitherto not been described from these
regions. Of the above 5 species (indicated by a single asterisk in the list given below)
4 are not known from the Indian peninsula. Another 11 species (denoted by double
asterisks) have been previously reported from the Maldives but not from
the Laccadives. Out of the 36 species reported in this paper, 29 species have been
collected from Minicoy and the rest from Kavarathy, Amenidivi and Bitra Islands.
Part of the material was kindly handed over to me by Dr. S. Jones, who collected
them in 1958 during a cruise to the Laccadive Islands. Additional material was
collected in the year 1961 by Messrs. P. T. Thomas, and Alimanickfan from Minicoy
and by Mr. P. M. Sayeed from the Laccadive and Amenidive Islands.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1961
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/891/1/Article_12.pdf
Sankarankutty, C (1961) On some crabs (Decapoda-Brachyura) from the Laccadive Archipelago. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 3 (1 & 2). pp. 120-136.