Fecundity of Liocarcinus depurator (Brachyura: Portunidae) in the Ría de Arousa (Galicia, north-west Spain)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 109-116

  Muiño, Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CRUSTACEAN; EGG PRODUCTION; FECUNDITY;

GALICIA; RIA DE AROUSA; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LIOCARCINUS DEPURATOR; PORTUNIDAE;

EID: 0036486643     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315402005222     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Abelló, P., 1986. Analisi de les poblacions de crustacis decápodes demersales al litoral catalá: aspectes biológics del braquiür Liocarcinus depurator. PhD thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
2. Abelló, P., 1989. Reproduction and moulting in Liocarcinus depurator (Linnaeus, 17513) (Brachyura: Portunidae) in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina, 53, 127-134.
3. Allen, J.A., 1967. Crustacea: Euphausiacea and Decapoda, with an illustrated Key to the British species. Fauna of the Clyde Sea Area. Millport: Scottish Marine Biological Association.
4. Branco, J.O. & Avila, M.G., 1992. Fecundidade em Callinecte danae Smith (Decapoda, Portunidae) da lagoa da Conceição, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 9, 167-173.
5. Bycroft, B.L., 1986. A technique for separating and counting rock lobster eggs. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 20, 623-626.
6. Campbell, A. & Eagles, M.D., 1983. Size at maturity and fecundity of rock crabs, Cancer irroratus, from the Bay of Fundy and southwestern Nova Scotia. Fisheries Bulletin, 81, 357-362.
7. Choy, S.C., 1985. A rapid method for removing and counting eggs from fresh and preserved decapod crustaceans. Aquaculture, 48, 369-372.
8. Choy, S.C., 1988. Reproductive biology of Liocarcinus puber and L. holsatus (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae) from the Gower Peninsula, South Wales. Marine Ecology, 9, 227-241.
9. Christiansen, M.E., 1969. Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura. Marine Invertebartes of Scandinavia, Oslo, 2, 1-143.
10. Corey, S. & Reid, D.M., 1991. Comparative fecundity of decapod crustaceans. I. The fecundity of thirty-three species of nine familles of caridean shrimp. Crustaceana, 60, 270-294.
11. Dugan, J.E., Wenner, A.M. & Hubbard, D.M., 1991. Geographic variation in the reproductive biology of the sand crab Emerita analoga (Stimpson) on the California coast. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 150, 63-81.
12. Elgar, M.A., 1990. Evolutionary compromise between a few large and many small eggs: comparative evidence in teleost fish. Oikos, 59, 283-287.
13. Fernández, L., González-Gurriarán, E. & Freire, J., 1991. Population biology of Liocarcinus depurator (Brachyura: Portunidae) in mussel raft culture areas in the Ría de Arousa (Galicia, north-west Spain). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 71, 375-390.
14. Freire, J., Muiño, R., Fernández, L. & González-Gurriarán, E., 1991. Life cycle of Liocarcinus arcuatus (Brachyura: Portunidae) in the Ría de Arousa (Galicia, NW Spain): role of beach and mussel raft culture areas. PSZNI: Marine Ecology, 12, 193-210.
15. González-Gurriarán, E., 1985. Reproducción de la nécora Macropipus puber (L.) (Decapoda, Brachyura), y ciclo reproductivo en la Ría de Arousa (Galicia, NW España). Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía, 2, 10-32.
16. González-Gurriarán, E. & Olaso, I., 1987. Cambios espaciales y temporales de los Crustáceos Decápodos de la plataforma continental de Galicia (NW de España). Investigación Pesquera. Barcelona, 51, Supplement 1, 323-341.
17. Hartnoll, R.G. & Gould, P., 1988. Brachyuran life history stategies and the optimization of egg production. In Aspects of decapod crustacean biology (ed. A.A. Fincham and P.S Rainbow), pp. 1-9. Oxford: The Zoological Society of London, Clarendon Press.
18. Hines, A.H., 1982. Allometric contraints and variables of reproductive effort in brachyuran crabs. Marine Biology, 69, 309-320.
19. Iglesias, J., 1981. Spatial and temporal changes in the demersal fish community of the Ría de Arosa (NW Spain). Marine Biology, 65, 199-208.
20. Ingle, R.N., 1980. British crabs. British Museum (Natural History) London: Oxford University Press.
21. Kinnear, J.A.M. & Mason, J., 1987. A preliminary study of an unfished population of the velvet swimming crab Liocarcinus puber (L.). International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (CM Papers and Reports), Shellfish Committee, CM 1987/K:6, 10 pp.
22. Kurata, H., 1962. Studies on the age and growth of crustacea. Bulletin of Hokkaido Regional Fishieries Research Laboratory, 24, 1-115.
23. Kuris, A.M., 1991. A review of patterns and causes of crustaceans brood mortality. In Crustacean egg production (ed. F.R. Schram), pp 117-141. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema.
24. Mashiko, K., 1990. Diversified egg and clutch sizes among local populations of the fresh-water prawn Macrobranchium nipponense (De Haan). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 10, 306-314.
25. Mori, M. & Zunino, P., 1987. Aspects of the biology of Liocarcinus depurator (L.) in the Ligurian Sea. Investigación Pesquera. Barcelona, 51, Supplement 1, 135-145.
26. Muiño, R., Fernández, L. & González-Gurriarán, E., 2000. Fecundity of Liocarcinus arcuatus (Decapoda: Brachyura) in the Ría de Arousa (Galicia, NW Spain). Ophelia, 53, 19-26.
27. Muiño, R., Fernández, L., González-Gurriarán, E., Freire, J. & Vilar, J.A., 1999. Size at maturity of Liocarcinus depurator (Brachyura: Portunidae): a reproductive and morphometric study. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 79, 295-303.
28. Norman, C.P. & Jones, M.B., 1993. Reproductive ecology of the velvet swimming crab, Necora puber (Brachyura: Portunidae), at Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 73, 379-389.
29. Olaso, I., 1979. Biología de los equinodermos de la Ría de Arousa. Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía, 5, 81-127.
30. Reid, D.M. & Corey, S., 1991. Comparative fecundity of decapod crustaceans. II. The fecundity of fifteen species of anomuran and brachyuran crabs. Crustaceana, 61, 175-189.
31. Reiss, M.J., 1989. The allometry of growth and reproduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
32. Romero, P., González-Gurriarán, E. & Penas, E., 1982. Influence of mussel rafts on spatial and seasonal abundance of crabs in the Ría de Arousa, north-west Spain. Marine Biology, 72, 201-210.
33. Shields, J.D. & Wood, F.E.I., 1993. Impact of parasites on the reproduction and fecundity of the blue sand crab Portunus pelagicus from Moreton Bay, Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 92, 159-170.
34. Somers, K.M., 1991. Characterizing size-specific fecundity in Crustaceans. In Crustacean egg production (ed. A. Wenner and A. Kuris), pp. 357-378. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema. Crustacean Issues
35. Wear, R.G., 1974. Incubation in British decapod Crustacea, and the effects of temperature on the rate and success of embryonic development. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 54, 745-762.