The occurrence, mechanics and significance of burying behaviour in crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1223-1238

  Bellwood, Orpha ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brachyura; Burying behaviour; Ecology; Evolution; Locomotion; Respiratory adaptations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BURROWING; CRAB; EVOLUTION;

BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0037099816     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930110048891     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Decapoda
2. Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 2. Brachyura Oxystomata
3. Changes in oxygen consumption, heart rate and ventilation accompanying starvation in the decapod crustacean Cancer pagurus
4. Patterns of gill ventilation in some decapod Crustacea
5. Physiological ecology of burrowing decapods
6. Descriptive catalogue of South African Decapod Crustacea (crabs and shrimps)
7. Deep burial as a refuge for lady crabs Ovalipes ocellatus: Comparisons with blue crabs Callinectes sapidus
8. A phylogenetic study of the Calappidae H. Milne Edwards 1837 (Crustacea: Brachyura) with a re-appraisal of the status of the family
9. The phylogeny of box crab genera (Crustacea: Brachyura: Calappidae) with notes on their fossil record, biogeography and depth distribution
10. Crab carapace hydrodynamics
11. Classification of the Recent Crustacea
12. Adaptations of Corystes cassivelaunus to an arenicolous mode of life
13. Feeding in Ovalipes guadulpensis (Saussure) (Decapoda; Brachyura: Portunidae), and morphological adaptations to a burrowing existence
14. Heart and scaphognathite activity during the digging behaviour of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas
15. Ventilatory and vascular routes in a sand-burying swimming crab, Ovalipes catharus (White, 1843) (Brachyura: Portunidae)
16. Behaviour
17. Contributions to marine bionomics, 1. The habits and respiratory mechanism of Corystes cassivelaunus
18. Contributions to marine bionomics, 2. The function of antero-lateral denticulations of the carapace in sand-burrowing crabs
19. On some modifications of structure subservient to respiration in Decapod Crustacea which burrow in sand; with some remarks on the utility of specific characters in the genus Calappa, and the description of a new species of Albunea
20. Données nouvelles sur la morphologie, la phylogenèse et la taxonomic des Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures
21. Habits of the smooth pebble crab (Philyra laevis Bell)
22. The occurrence, methods and significance of swimming in the brachyura
23. The biology of the burrowing crab
24. A contribution to Indian carcinology
25. Abundance, breeding and growth of the crab Scylla serrata (Forskal) in two South African estuaries
26. Distribution of juvenile, subadult and adult Scylla serrata (Crustacea: Portunidae) on tidal flats in Australia
27. 2 and hydrostatic pressure changes within the branchial chambers in relation to gill ventilation of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas (L.)
28. Spider crabs of the family Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) with particular reference to Australian species: Systematics and biology
29. Burrowing behaviour of the paddle crab Ovalipes catharus (White, 1843) (Brachyura: Portunidae)
30. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Family Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)
31. Burrowing and burying by the crab Macrophthalmus hirtipes
32. Ecology of sand beaches at Beaufort, N.C.
33. Terrestrial adaptations
34. The oxystomatous and allied crabs of America
35. Form und funktion der brachyuren-schere
36. An unusual respiratory rhythm in the crab Ebalia tuberosa (Pennant) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosiidae)
37. Oxygen consumption and the respiratory responses to declining oxygen tension in the crab Ebalia tuberosa (Pennant) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosiidae)
38. The functional morphology of the branchial chambers and associated structures of Ebalia tuberosa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosiidae), with special reference to ventilation of the egg-mass
39. Substratum preferences, burrowing and righting in Ebalia tuberosa (Pennant) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosiidae)
40. Fortbewegung und nahrungserwerb bei matuta lunaris forskal (Calappidae, Oxystomata, Decapoda, Crustacea)
41. Catch rate and emergence of male and female spanner crabs (Ranina ranina) in Australia
42. The monophyly of brachyuran crabs: A phylogenetic study based on 18s rRNA
43. Revision of the Calappidae
44. Effect of temperature on the emergence, activity and feeding of male and female sand crabs (Portunus pelagicus)
45. Biology of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, in the St. John's River, Florida
46. Branchial ventilation in the burrowing crab, Atelecyclus rotundatus
47. Oxygen and carbon dioxide transporting properties of the blood of three sublittoral species of burrowing crabs
48. The mechanisms of burrowing into soft substrata by marine animals
49. Researches on the coast of Somalia. The shore and the dune of Sar Uanle. 27. Burrows and digging behaviour in Ocypode and other crabs (Crustacea Brachyura)
50. The swimming crabs of the genus Callinectes (Decapoda: Portunidae)