{"title":"First Zoeal Stage of 15 Species of Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from Taiwan.","authors":"Ying-Chen Zhang, Hsi-Te Shih","doi":"10.6620/ZS.2022.61-71","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fiddler crabs (Brachyura: Ocypodidae: Gelasiminae) in Taiwan consist of 5 genera and 15 species, but knowledge of their larval development is limited to just 3 species, namely <i>Austruca lactea</i>, <i>Tubuca arcuata</i>, and <i>Xeruca formosensis</i>. In our study, the morphology of the first zoeal stage (zoea I) of the 15 species is described and compared to previous studies. The results show that the characters of zoea I can be used to distinguish the five studied genera and most species (except three groups, \"<i>Gelasimus borealis</i>, <i>G. jocelynae</i> and <i>G. vocans</i>\", \"<i>Paraleptuca crassipes</i> and <i>P. splendida</i>\" and \"<i>Tubuca arcuata</i>, <i>T. coarctata</i> and <i>T. paradussumieri</i>\"). The lateral spines on the carapace in zoea I are suggested to be a unique character in the Ocypodinae because they are absent in the Gelasiminae and Ucidinae, which supports the current systematics of the Ocypodidae.</p>","PeriodicalId":49331,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Studies","volume":"61 ","pages":"e71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9810989/pdf/zoolstud-61-071.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zoological Studies","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2022.61-71","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ZOOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Fiddler crabs (Brachyura: Ocypodidae: Gelasiminae) in Taiwan consist of 5 genera and 15 species, but knowledge of their larval development is limited to just 3 species, namely Austruca lactea, Tubuca arcuata, and Xeruca formosensis. In our study, the morphology of the first zoeal stage (zoea I) of the 15 species is described and compared to previous studies. The results show that the characters of zoea I can be used to distinguish the five studied genera and most species (except three groups, "Gelasimus borealis, G. jocelynae and G. vocans", "Paraleptuca crassipes and P. splendida" and "Tubuca arcuata, T. coarctata and T. paradussumieri"). The lateral spines on the carapace in zoea I are suggested to be a unique character in the Ocypodinae because they are absent in the Gelasiminae and Ucidinae, which supports the current systematics of the Ocypodidae.
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