First record of two rare brachyuran crabs: Drachiella morum Alcock, 1896 and Quadrella maculosa Alcock, 1898 along the Tamil Nadu coast, India

The present report describes the first record of two brachyuran crabs, Drachiella morum Alcock, 1896 and Quadrella maculosa Alcock, 1898 along the coast of Tamil Nadu, India.  The morphological characters of the specimens are described and discussed.  Among the two crabs, Q. maculosa was previously...

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Main Authors: Chinnathambi Viswanathan, Sampath Goutham, Vijayakumar Deepak Samuel, Pandian Krishnan, Ramachandran Purvaja, Ramachandran Ramesh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society 2019-08-01
Series:Journal of Threatened Taxa
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Online Access:https://www.threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/3076