Check List 9(6): 1514-1518, doi: 10.15560/9.6.1514
Checklist of the Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) of India
Sanjeevi Prakash‡, Thipramalai Thangappan Ajith Kumar‡, Syed Ajmal Khan‡‡ Annamalai University, India
Corresponding author: Sanjeevi Prakash ( prakash.s1311@gmail.com ) © 2017 Sanjeevi Prakash, Thipramalai Kumar, Syed Khan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Prakash S, Kumar T, Khan S (2013) Checklist of the Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) of India. Check List 9(6): 1514-1518. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.6.1514 |  |
Abstract
Although the porcellanid fauna of Indian waters has been studied for more than 150 years, diversity of this family remains underestimated. In order to complement the knowledge on the porcellanid fauna of India, an annotated checklist is herein provided on the basis of published literature. A total of 30 species belonging to 11 genera are currently known from Indian waters. The distribution ranges of two porcellanids Porcellanella haigae and Pseudoporcellanella manoliensis indicate that they are endemic, as they are, so far, known only from their type locality (Gulf of Mannar, Tamilnadu). The list is arranged alphabetically by genus and species with information on species’ distribution and ecology.
Keywords
Crustacea; Decapoda; Anomura; species inventory; endemics; geographic distribution