Doclea muricata (Fabicius, 1787)

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

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Doclea muricata (Fabicius, 1787)
status

 

15. Doclea muricata (Fabicius, 1787) View in CoL *

(Plate 1, Figure 7)

1787. Cancer muricatus Fabricius, Mantissa Ins. , 1:324·

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

230.

1986. Doclea muricata Wagner, Bull. Mus . Natn. Hist.nat. Paris, ser. 4, 8: 911, figs. 16-19, pI. 5.

2005. Doclea muricata : Dev Roy and Bhadra, Faunaof Andhra Pradesh, State Fauna Series, 5: (Part 5): 405· ZooI. Surv. India.

Material examined: 4exs., Digha, 19.ix.2014, Coll.O.P.S (Reg.no.A-4332).

Diagnosis: Carapace longer than its breadth; bears eight spines on its median line and two spines are present on the branchial region; anterolateral border of carapace bears small tubercles. Chelepeds slender in both the sexes. Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh (Pukkala Peta), Kerala ( Cochin Harbour), Puducherry, Maharashtra (Ratnagiri), Ponicherry, Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Palk Strait) and West Bengal (Digha). Elsewhere: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

Remarks: This species is reported new to this area.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Epialtidae

Genus

Doclea

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