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First record of bilateral hypertrophy in chelas of Uca rapax male specimen (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) on the Brazilian coastline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2015

Valéria Fonsêca Vale ,
Carlos Eduardo Rocha Duarte Alencar ,
Sávio Arcanjo Santos Nascimento Moraes  and
Fúlvio Aurélio Morais Freire
Valéria Fonsêca Vale*
Affiliation:
Grupo de Estudos em Ecologia e Fisiologia de Animais Aquáticos (GEEFAA), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil
Carlos Eduardo Rocha Duarte Alencar
Affiliation:
Grupo de Estudos em Ecologia e Fisiologia de Animais Aquáticos (GEEFAA), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil
Sávio Arcanjo Santos Nascimento Moraes
Affiliation:
Grupo de Estudos em Ecologia e Fisiologia de Animais Aquáticos (GEEFAA), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil
Fúlvio Aurélio Morais Freire
Affiliation:
Grupo de Estudos em Ecologia e Fisiologia de Animais Aquáticos (GEEFAA), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil Núcleo de Estudos em Biologia, Ecologia e Cultivo de Crustáceos (NEBECC), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Botucatu, SP, 18618-970, Brazil
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: V.F. Vale, Grupo de Estudos em Ecologia e Fisiologia de Animais Aquáticos (GEEFAA), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de BotânicaEcologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário, RN, 59072–970, Brazil email: fulvio@cb.ufrn.br
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Abstract

An adult male specimen of Uca rapax (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae), containing bilaterally hypertrophied chelipeds, was found in the mangrove area of the Rio Grande do Norte state, north-eastern Brazil. The chelipeds are subequal in size and similar to the major cheliped of normal male specimens of Uca rapax. This paper is the first record of the aforementioned anomaly for the species from the Brazilian coastline.

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fiddler crabsanomalysymmetrysuper-males

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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 8 , 2015 , e52
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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