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Crustacean resources of the Lakshadweep islands

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Title Crustacean resources of the Lakshadweep islands
 
Creator Rao, G Sudhakara
Suseelan, C
Kathirvel, M
 
Subject Crustacean Fisheries
 
Description Information on the crustacean resources
of Lakshadweep is limited to only a few
faunistic reports on crabs, prawns, lobsters and
stomatopods (Alcock, 1895, 1896, 1998, 1899,
1900; Borradaile, 19C3a, 1903b, 1903c, 1903d,
19o6a, 1906b; Sankarankutty, 196); Thomas
1970a, 1970b, Meiyappan and Kathirvel, 1978;
Piilai era/, 1984 and Shanbhogue, 1986) A
total of 132 species of brachyuran crabs mostly
belonging to Calappidae, Majidae, Parthenopidae,
Portunidae, Xanthidae, Ocypodidae and
Grapsidae, 4 species of palinurid lobsters, 2
species of scyllarid lobsters, 6 species of
penaeid prawns and 7 species of stomatopods
have been recorded so far from these islands.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Contributor Suseelan, C
 
Date 1989
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2639/1/Article_11.pdf
Rao, G Sudhakara and Suseelan, C and Kathirvel, M (1989) Crustacean resources of the Lakshadweep islands. CMFRI Bulletin, 43. pp. 72-76.