Doclea hybrida (Fabricius,1798)

Srivastava, O. P., 2017, Marine and estuarine crabs of Digha coast, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 49-72 : 57

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117284

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scientific name

Doclea hybrida (Fabricius,1798)
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16. Doclea hybrida (Fabricius,1798) View in CoL

1798. Inachus hybridus Fabricius, Entom. Syst. Suppl. : 355.

1895. Doclea hybrida Alcock, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal , 64 (2):

231.

1977. Doclea hybrida Kantha Bai and Rao, Newsl. Zool. Surv. India, 3(6): 370.

2005. Doclea hybrida : Dev Roy and Bhadra, Zool. Surv. India State Fauna Series 5: Fauna of Andhra Pradesh (Part 5):406 pI. 1, Figure 7.

Material examined: 1 ex., Digha Mohana, 16.iv.2014, Coll: O.P.S. (Reg.no.A-4383); 5 exs., Digha mohana,

05.iii.2015, Coll: O.P.S. (Reg. no. A-4324 &4346); 1ex., Shankarpur, 17.ii.2015, Coll. O.P.S. (Reg. no. A-4344).

Diagnosis: Carapace medium sized, gloomy, longer than broad. Antero-lateral borders bear tubercles. Chelipeds almost as long as the carapace and rostrum; palm very enlarged.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh (East Godavari, Nellore), Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal (Bay of Bengal, Digha, Shankarpur). Elsewhere: Sri Lanka.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Epialtidae

Genus

Doclea

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