New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)

New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)

Abstract The occurrence of intersex specimens of Lissoporcellana quadrilobata (Miers, 1884), Pisidia bluteli (Risso, 1816) and Pisidia longimana (Risso, 1816) is recorded for the first time and their secondary sexual characters analyzed. Intersex specimens were collected in regions regularly affecte...

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Main Author: Luciane Augusto de Azevedo Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Carcinologia 2018-03-01
Series:Nauplius
Subjects:
Intersex
Malacostraca
pollution
anomuran crabs
sexual characters
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-64972018000100802&lng=en&tlng=en
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spelling doaj-e74a19e825004cd89878e1af0c9722742020-11-24T22:08:00ZengSociedade Brasileira de CarcinologiaNauplius2358-29362018-03-0126010.1590/2358-2936e2018009S0104-64972018000100802New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)Luciane Augusto de Azevedo FerreiraAbstract The occurrence of intersex specimens of Lissoporcellana quadrilobata (Miers, 1884), Pisidia bluteli (Risso, 1816) and Pisidia longimana (Risso, 1816) is recorded for the first time and their secondary sexual characters analyzed. Intersex specimens were collected in regions regularly affected by pollution. There is a high possibility that intersexuality in porcelain crabs is caused by environmental contamination.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-64972018000100802&lng=en&tlng=enIntersexMalacostracapollutionanomuran crabssexual characters
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author Luciane Augusto de Azevedo Ferreira
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New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)
Nauplius
Intersex
Malacostraca
pollution
anomuran crabs
sexual characters
author_facet Luciane Augusto de Azevedo Ferreira
author_sort Luciane Augusto de Azevedo Ferreira
title New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)
title_short New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)
title_full New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)
title_fullStr New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)
title_full_unstemmed New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)
title_sort new records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (crustacea: decapoda: anomura: porcellanidae)
publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Carcinologia
series Nauplius
issn 2358-2936
publishDate 2018-03-01
description Abstract The occurrence of intersex specimens of Lissoporcellana quadrilobata (Miers, 1884), Pisidia bluteli (Risso, 1816) and Pisidia longimana (Risso, 1816) is recorded for the first time and their secondary sexual characters analyzed. Intersex specimens were collected in regions regularly affected by pollution. There is a high possibility that intersexuality in porcelain crabs is caused by environmental contamination.
topic Intersex
Malacostraca
pollution
anomuran crabs
sexual characters
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-64972018000100802&lng=en&tlng=en
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