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First record of a burrowing mole crab <em>Emerita emeritus</em> (Decapoda: Anomura: Hippidae) from Chilika Lake, East coast of India

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Title First record of a burrowing mole crab <em>Emerita emeritus</em> (Decapoda: Anomura: Hippidae) from Chilika Lake, East coast of India
 
Creator Mahapatro, Debasish
Karna, Subodha K.
Mohanty, Surya K.
Mohanty, Bita
Muduli, P. R.
Pattnaik, Ajit K.
Nanda, Susanta
 
Subject First record
Mole crab
<em>Emerita emeritus</em> Chilika Lake
 
Description 109-113
This paper provides the first information regarding the first record of a burrowing crab <em>Emerita emeritus</em> Linnaeus, 1767 (Family Hippidae) from the Chilika lake. It is first ever to record mole crab from a brackish water coastal ecosystem. The extensive sandy intertidal region of outer channel area becomes the suitable habitat for the preponderance of this crab species.
 
Date 2018-01-15T09:24:38Z
2018-01-15T09:24:38Z
2018-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/43448
 
Language en_US
 
Rights <img src='http://nopr.niscair.res.in/image/cc-license-sml.png'> <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in' target='_blank'>CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India</a>
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.47(01) [January 2018]