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An incidence of attachment of Barnacles on Portunid crabs landed at Chennai-Pondicherry coasts

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Title An incidence of attachment of Barnacles on Portunid crabs landed at Chennai-Pondicherry coasts
 
Creator Thirumilu, P
 
Subject Crabs
 
Description A single berried female of portunid crab Charybdis (Charybdis) lucifera known as "Pacha Nandu" in Tamil was collected from the trawl catches landed at Pondicherry Harbour on 13-4-2006. Unusually, large number of short stalked goose barnacles, Lepas anserifera were found covering the entire dorsal surface of carapace and on both the chelipeds of crab.
 
Publisher CMFRI, Cochin
 
Date 2006
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3622/1/Article7.pdf
Thirumilu, P (2006) An incidence of attachment of Barnacles on Portunid crabs landed at Chennai-Pondicherry coasts. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 189. pp. 21-22.