2024
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5476.1.20
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Ecomorphology of main food processing structures of four ocypodid species: how do they relate to the crabs’ trophic habits?

SHIRLEY S. L. LIM,
ADELINE Y. P. YONG

Abstract: The spoon-tipped (ST) setae coverage and their abundance on the second maxillipeds as well as the morphology of the urocardiac and zygocardiac ossicles from the gastric mills of the four ocypodid species, viz., Austruca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), Gelasimus vocans (Linnaeus), 1758, two typical deposit-feeding fiddler crabs, Petruca panamensis (Stimpson, 1859), an atypical herbivorous-cum-‘sediment swallower’ fiddler crab, and Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772), an omnivorous ghost crab, were descri… Show more

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