Species status in question: A morphometric and molecular comparison of Cyrtograpsus affinis and C. altimanus (Decapoda, Brachyura, Varunidae)

Journal of Crustacean Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 212-222

  Spivak, Eduardo D ^a   Schubart, Christoph D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYURA; CYRTOGRAPSUS AFFINIS; CYRTOGRAPSUS ALTIMANUS; CYRTOGRAPSUS ANGULATUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; VARUNIDAE;

EID: 0037325326     PISSN: 02780372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/20021975-99990328     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Alon, N. C., and S. E. Stancyk. 1982. Variation in life-history patterns of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio in two South Carolina estuarine systems. - Marine Biology 68: 265-276.
2. Anger, K. 1995. The conquest of freshwater and land by marine crabs: adaptations in life-history patterns and larval bioenergetics. - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 193: 119-145.
3. Boschi, E. E. 1964. Los crustáceos decápodos Brachyura del litoral bonaerense (R. Argentina). - Boletín del Instituto de Biología Marina, Mar del Plata 6: 1-99.
4. Cabot, E. L., and A. T. Beckenbach. 1989. Simultaneous editing of multiple nucleic acid and protein sequences with ESEE. - Computer Applications in the Biosciences 5: 233,-234.
5. Clayton, D. A. 1990. Crustacean allometric growth: a case of caution. - Crustaceana 58: 27-290.
6. Cuesta, J. A., and C. D. Schubart. 1998. Morphological and molecular differentiation between three allopatric populations of the littoral crab Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850) (Brachyura: Grapsidae). - Journal of Natural History 32: 1499-1508.
7. _, _, and A. Rodríguez. 2000. Larval development of Brachynotus sexdentatus (Risso, 1827) (Decapoda, Brachyura) reared under laboratory conditions, with notes on larval characters of the Varunidae. - Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 383: 207-223.
8. Flores, A., and M. L. Negreiros-Fransozo. 1999. Allometry of the secondary sexual characters of the shore crab Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850) (Brachyura: Grapsidae). - Crustaceana 72: 1051-1066.
9. Fratini, S., and M. Vannini. 2002. Genetic differentiation in the swimming crab Scylla serrata (Decapoda: Portunidae) within the Indian Ocean. - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 272: 103-116.
10. Garth, J. S. 1957. The Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura of Chile. - Reports of the Lund Unversity Chile Expedition 1948-49, n°29. - Lunds Universitets Arsskrift N.I. Avd. 2, 53(7): 1-127.
11. Guinot, D. 1984. Le genre Leurocyclus Rathbun (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). - Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 4, ser. 9, sec A, 1: 211-247.
12. Hellberg, M. E. 1998. Sympatric sea shells along the sea's shore: the geography of speciation in the marine gastropod Tegula. - Evolution 52: 1311-1324.
13. Hines, A. H. 1989. Geographic variation in size at maturity in brachyuran crabs. - Bulletin of Marine Science 45: 356-368.
14. Jones, M. B., and M. J. Simons. 1983. Latitudinal variation in reproductive characteristics of a mud crab, Helice crassa. - Bulletin of Marine Science 33: 656-670.
15. Klautau, M., C. Russo, C. Lazoski, N. Boury-Esnault, J. P. Thorpe, and A. Solé-Cava. 1999. Does cosmopolitanism in morphologically simple species result from overconservative systematics? A case study using the marine sponge Chondrilla nucula. - Evolution 53: 1414-1422.
16. Knowlton, N. 1993. Sibling species in the sea. - Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 24: 189-216.
17. Kuhlmann, M., L. and R. E. Walker. 1999. Geographic variation in size structure and size at maturity in the crab Pilumnus sayi (Crustacea; Decapoda: Xanthhidae) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. - Bulletin of Marine Science 64: 535-541.
18. Kyomo, J. 1986. Reproductive activities in the sesarmid crab Sesarma intermedia in the coastal and estuarine habitats of Hakata, Japan. - Marine Biology 91: 319-329.
19. _. 2000. Intraspecific variation of reproductive strategies of the crab Sesarma intermedia: a consequence of habitat variations. - Bulletin of Marine Science 66: 157-171.
20. Mayr, E., and P. D. Ashlock. 1991. Principles of Systematic Zoology, 2nd edition. McGraw Hill Book Co., Singapore. 475 pp.
21. Otani, T., and T. Takahashi. 1996. Cheliped transformation in the swimming pea crab Tritodynamia horvathi Nobili. - Crustacean Research 25: 137-141.
22. Rathbun, M. J. 1914. New genera and species of American brachyrhynchous crabs. - Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47: 117-129.
23. _. 1918. The grapsoid crabs of America. - Bulletin of the United States National Museum 87: 1-461.
24. Rieger, P. J., and R. R. R. Vieira. 1997. Desenvolvimento larval de Cyrtograpsus angulatus Dana (Crustacea, Decapoda, Grapsidae) em laboratórío. - Revista brasileira de Zoologia 14: 601-623.
25. Scelzo, M. A., and V. Lichtschein de Bastida. 1979. Desarrollo larval y metamorfosis del cangrejo Cyrtograpsus altimanus Rathbun 1914 (Brachyura, Grapsidae) en laboratorio, con observaciones de la ecología de la especie. - Physis, Buenos Aires 38A: 103-126.
26. Schubart, C. D., J. A. Cuesta, R. Diesel, and D. L. Felder. 2000a. Molecular phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of non-marine lineages within the American Grapsoidea (Crustacea: Brachyura). - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15: 179-190.
27. _, _, and D. L. Felder. 2002. Glyptograpsidae, a new brachyuran family from Central America: larval and adult morphology, and a molecular phylogeny of the Grapsoidea. - Journal of Crustacean Biology 22: 28-44.
28. _, _, and A. Rodríguez. 2001. Molecular phylogeny of the crab genus Brachynotus (Brachyura: Varunidae) based on the 16S rRNA gene. - Hydrobiologia 449: 41-46.
29. _, D. Horst, and R. Diesel. 1999. First record of Sesarma rectum Randall (Brachyura, Grapsidae, Sesarminae) from the Lesser Antilles. - Crustaceana 72: 537-538.
30. _, J. E. Neigel, and D. L. Felder, 2000b. The use of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene for phylogenetic and population studies of Crustacea. - Crustacean Issues 12: 817-830.
31. Simons, M. J., and M. B. Jones, 1981. Population and reproductive biology of the mud crab Macrophthalmus hirtipes (Ocypodidae) from marine and estuarine habitats. - Journal of Natural History 15: 981-994.
32. Spivak, E. 1999. Effects of reduced salinity on juvenile growth of two co-occurring congeneric grapsid crabs. - Marine Biology 134: 249-257.
33. _, and J. A. Cuesta. 2000. Larval development of Cyrtograpsus affinis (Dana) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Varunidae) from Río de la Plata estuary, reared in the laboratory. - Scientia Marina 64: 29-47.