Grooming behaviors and fouling of the spider crab Libinia dubia (Decapoda: Epialtidae)

Abstract Body fouling has been reduced by grooming behaviors. In decapods, grooming has been focused on gills, sensory structures, and jointed appendages. In this study, grooming behaviors of the spider crab, Libinia dubia H. Milne-Edwards, 1834, were examined; this brachyuran crab decorates and cam...

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Main Authors: Jen L. Wortham, Jace Jedlicka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Carcinologia
Series:Nauplius
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-64972019000100205&lng=en&tlng=en