Fatty acids composition in edible parts of Blue Swimming Crab (Portunus pelagicus) caught in the Persian Gulf close to the Bushehr Province were investigated. Among saturated fatty acids (SFA), the 16:0 and 18:0 fatty acids were the most two dominant fatty acids in meat tissues that analyzed. 18:1n-9 and 16:1n-7 were the major fatty acids among the MUFAs of male and female crab. The main PUFAs ...

Freshwater crabs are an important component of the fauna of limnic environments, and out of the two true freshwater crab families present in the Neotropics, Pseudothelphusidae is the most diverse. Considering the lack of information regarding reproductive features of neotropical freshwater crabs, we studied, for the first time, the fecundity and the presence of juveniles carried by females of t...

The taxonomic status of the widely distributed freshwater crab Potamonautes lirrangensis (Rathbun, 1904) sensu lato is revised because morphological and molecular evidence indicates that this taxon a complex comprising more than one species. Four taxa are now recognized: s. str. P. kisangani sp. nov. from Middle Congo River in Central Africa, amosae drainages Lakes Kivu Tanganyika, orbitospinus...

crabs of intertidal zone of a muddy shore in bandar abbas were studied using monthly examination of goharshad and terminal stations during august 2005 to july 2006. sampling was done by corer and 14 species from 6 families were identified. crabs were from ocypodidae, pinnotheridae, pilumnidae, trapeziidae, leucosiidae and varunidae families. results showed ocypodidae, the most abundant and dive...

Abstract A new species of freshwater crab the genus Isolapotamon Bott, 1968 (Potamidae) is described from western Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. seowi species, sixth known Sabah, and differs its closest congener, I. buntyae Ng, Low & Clark, 2022, eastern Borneo, possessing a relatively lower carapace, more rugose dorsal carapace surface, postorbital cristae being sharper subparallel with fronta...

The impact of microbial gill infestations on the pathology and physiology of the freshwater crab Potamonautes warreni was investigated by comparison of infested and uninfested crab populations from, respectively, a polluted and an unpolluted site along the Mooi River, North West Province, South Africa. Heavy gill infestations by bacteria (70%), peritrichous ciliates such as Lagenophrys sp. (15%...