Abstract:Breeding strategies of hydrothermal vent biota are of central interest for the "supply-side" ecology and evolution at vent sites. Researchers from the National Taiwan Ocean University have recently uncovered a new nursery habitat for the vent crab, Xenograpsus testudinatus (Decapoda, Brachyura) at a shallow hydrothermal vent site that extends from the deep-sea Okinawa Trench, off the northeastern coast of Taiwan (N.W. Pacific Ocean). Megalopa and early juvenile crab stages were found abundantly in a fissured h… Show more
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