Range extension of brachyuran crabs of the family Camptandriidae Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in Indian waters

Kauresh Vachhrajani; Jignesh Trivedi; Dhruva Trivedi

doi:10.15560/13.3.2145

Check List 13(3): e19746, doi: 10.15560/13.3.2145

Range extension of brachyuran crabs of the family Camptandriidae Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in Indian waters

Jigneshkumar N. Trivedi^‡, Dhruva J. Trivedi^‡, Kauresh D. Vachharajani^‡

‡ Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Lab., Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara-390002, Gujarat, India, India

Corresponding author: Kauresh Vachharajani ( kauresh@gmail.com )

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Citation: Vachhrajani K, Trivedi J, Trivedi D (2017) Range extension of brachyuran crabs of the family Camptandriidae Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in Indian waters. Check List 13(3): 2145. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.3.2145

Abstract

We report the presence of 3 species of brachyuran crabs, Opusia indica (Alcock, 1900), Nasima dotilliformis (Alcock, 1900) and Leptochryseus kuwaitensis (Jones & Clayton, 1983) (family Camptandriidae), for the first time from Indian waters. The species are so far reported from Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Records of these species in Indian waters extend their distribution range in the northern Indian Ocean.

Keywords

Gujarat, India; Arabian Sea; new record