Amin Mokhlesi

[ 1 ] - Sexual Differences in Foraging Behavior of Fiddler Crab, Uca sindensis (Decapoda: Ocypodidae)

Fiddler crab females have two small feeding claws while males have only one the other is enlarged and used as a weapon as well as a mate attraction signal. The study was conducted on the small intertidal fiddler crab Uca sindensis in the Abi estuary near Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf. Data were collected from September 2007 to August 2008 in order to cover a wide range of ecological conditio...