Relative growth in the New Zealand mud crabMacrophthalmus hirtipes(Brachyura: Ocypodidae)
作者:
M. J. Simons,
期刊:
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
(Taylor Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 15,
issue 2
页码: 193-200
ISSN:0028-8330
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1080/00288330.1981.9515912
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Macrophthalmus hirtipes;Brachyura;growth;habitats;estuaries;marine ecology;marine crustaceans
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The relative growth of chela, abdomen, and male first pleopod is described forMacrophthalmus hirtipes(Jacquinot, 1853) (Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from the Avon‐Heathcote Estuary (43°33′S, 172°44′E) and from a marine inlet at Governors Bay (43°38′S, 172°39′E), Canterbury. Marine and estuarine crabs had a similar estimated size of maturity of between 10 and 13 mm carapace width. Coincident with sexual maturity was an acceleration in the growth rate of the male chela, an enlargement and change in shape of the female abdomen, and a change to negative allometric growth of the male first pleopod. Statistically significant (P < 0.05) intraspecific differences in some body proportions were found between the 2 populations. Relative growth of the chela ofM. hirtipesis similar to that of Australian macrophthal‐mids.
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