Growth rates within and among sea turtles are highly variable, and gaining an understanding of this variability is difficult using traditional means, such as mark–recapture. Skeletochronology is becoming a standard technique for the assessment of individual growth rates in sea turtles. Here we present an analysis of the relationship between humerus diameter and somatic growth in loggerhead sea ...

The relative growth of the fiddler crab Uca sindensis in Pohl Port was studied. Ten 0.5 m2 quadrates were randomly sampled monthly during low tide periods from October 2009 to September 2010. A total of 840 crabs, 449 (53.45%) males and 391(46.5%) ‌ females, were sampled. The Carapace width of males ranged from 5.5 to13.5 mm (mean ± SD) (8.92 ± 2.04), and of females from 5.0 to 11.5 mm (mean ± ...

Two species of the cumacean genus Atlantocuma from the southern coast of Honshu, Japan, 781–861 m depth, A. gamoi sp. nov. and A. ojii sp. nov., and Pseudopicrocuma japonicum gen et sp. nov. from Nansei Islands, 566–1769 m depth, are described. Atlantocuma gamoi is characterized by (1) carapace elevated in preparatory and ovigerous female, (2) antero-lateral angle of carapace with 3 teeth in fe...

Stock assessment and reproductive biology of the blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus, in Bandar Abbas coastal waters was conducted from August 2006 to July 2007. A total of 424 male and 348 female crabs were taken to the laboratory for length, weight and reproductive biometry. Estimate of growth parameter of crab showed t asymptotic carapace width (CW) was 172.5 mm, the curvature parameter, ...

—A new species of leptostracan crustacean, Nebalia gerkenae, is described from Bennett Slough, Monterey County, California. The species is similar to N. hessleri from deeper waters off La Jolla, California. It differs from N. hessleri in the shape and color of the pigmented region of the eyes, armature of the antennule and antenna, the degree that the carapace covers the abdominal somites, dent...

this study was conducted to investigate some aspects of the reproductive system of exopalaemon styliferus (h. milne edwards, 1840) population in downstream bahmanshir river during summer, 2008. a total of 472 specimens collected from sampling site?? stations, males and females comprised 55.4% and 43.6%, respectively (14.4% ovigerous female and 30.1% non-ovigerous females). the minimum size of m...

in this study, some external morphometric characters viz. carapace width (cw) and length (cl), chelar propodus width (chw) and length (chl) and abdominal width (aw) and also body weight (bw) of the blue swimming crab, portunus pelagicus (linnaeus, 1758), were examined. relative growth and regression slope compared among these parameters between 151 males and 158 females. specimens were collecte...

Microsatellite markers from a transcriptome sequence library were initially isolated, and their genetic variation was characterized in a wild population of the mud crab (Scylla paramamosain). We then tested the association between these microsatellite markers and the growth performance of S. paramamosain. A total of 129 polymorphic microsatellite markers were identified, with an observed hetero...

A total of 1,173 specimens of Stomatopoda were captured in 27 localities at different depths (20 to 73 m) during three oceanographic cruises in the Mexican Pacific along the continental shelf of the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas. Seven species were identified of the families Eurysquillidae, Lysiosquillidae and Squillidae. Squilla hancocki and Squilla parva were the most abundant species and the ...