The East Usambara tree-hole crab (Brachyura Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) - A striking example of crustacean adaptation in closed canopy forest, Tanzania

African Journal of Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 26-34

  Bayliss, J ^a,b,c  

^a Frontier Tanzania East Usambara Forest Research Programme   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crustacean adaptation; East Usambara; Tree hole

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CRAB; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY; NEW RECORD;

TANZANIA;

BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; POTAMOIDEA; POTAMONAUTIDAE;

EID: 0036128258     PISSN: 01416707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0141-6707.2001.00333.x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Sesarma jarvisi and Sesarma cookei, montane, terrestrial grapsid crabs in Jamaica (Decapoda)
2. Ecology of tropical hermit crabs at Ouirimba Island, Mozambique: Vertical migration (tree climbing)
3. Use of time, space and food resources in the mangrove climbing crab Selatium elongatum (Grapsidae: Sesarminae)
4. Tree fidelity and hole in the tree crab Sesarma leptosoma (Decapoda, Grapsidae)
5. Homing experiments in the tree-climbing crab Sesarma leptosoma (Decapoda, Grapsidae)
6. The respiratory system of Globonautes macropus (Rathbum, 1898), a terrestrial freshwater crab from Liberia (Gecarcinucoidea, Gecarcinucidae)
7. Ecology, distribution, and growth in Globonautes macropus (Rathbun, 1898), a treeliving freshwater crab from the rain forests of Liberia (Gecarcinucoidea, Gecarcinucidae)
8. Parental care in an unusual environment: Metopaulias depressus (Decapoda: Grapsidae), a crab that lives in epiphytic bromeliads
9. Managing the offspring environment: Brood care in the bromeliad crab, Metopaulias depressus
10. Maternal control of calcium concentration in the larval nursery of the bromeliad crab, Metopaulias depressus (Grapsidae)
11. Breeding in a snail shell: Ecology and biology of the Jamaican montane crab Sesarma jarvisi (Decapoda: Grapsidae)
12. A reconstruction of the invasion of the land by Jamaican crabs (Grapsidae: Sesarminae)
13. 4 Behavior
14. The Usambara country in East Africa
15. Profile diagrams of the East Usambara forests
16. Sesarma cookei n.sp., a grapsid crab from Jamaica (Decapoda, Brachyura)
17. The East Usambara fauna
18. Salt and water balance in the West African freshwater/land crab Sudanonautes africanus africanus and the effects of desiccation
19. Studies on the immature stages of the Simulium neavei Roubaud complex and their associated crabs in the Eastern Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. I. Investigations in rivers and large streams
20. Studies on the immature stages of the Simulium neavei Roubaud complex and their associated crabs in the Eastern Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. IV. Observations on the crabs and their attached larvae under exceptionally dry conditions
21. Studies on the immature stages of the Simulium neavei Roubaud complex and their associated crabs in the Eastern Usambara Mountains in Tanzania
22. Species richness and endemism in the Usambara mountain forests, Tanzania
23. Taxonomy and ecology of two endemic freshwater crabs from western Jamaica with the description of a new Sesarma species (Brachyura: Grapsidae: Sesarminae)
24. Salt and water balance in the East African freshwater crab, Potamon niloticus (M. Edw.)
25. Vertical migrations in the tree crab Sesarminae leptosoma (Decapoda, Grapsidae)
26. The tree climbing crabs of Trinidad
27. Life history of the mangrove tree crab Aratus pisoni
28. Freshwater crabs and Simulium neavel in East Africa. III. Morphological variation in Potamonautes loveni (Decapoda: Potamidae)
29. A survey of the fauna of streams on Mount Elgon, East Africa, with special reference to the Simuliidae (Diptera)
30. Freshwater crabs and Simulium neavei in East Africa. II. Further observations made during a second visit to East Africa in February-April, 1962 (the dry season)