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First record of bilateral hypertrophy in chelas of Uca rapax male specimen (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) on the Brazilian coastline

2015; BioMed Central; Volume: 8; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1755267215000299

1755-2672

Valéria Fonsêca Vale, Carlos Eduardo Rocha Duarte Alencar, Sávio Arcanjo Santos Nascimento Moraes, Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais Freire,

Marine Biology and Ecology Research

An adult male specimen of Uca rapax (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae), containing bilaterally hypertrophied chelipeds, was found in the mangrove area of the Rio Grande do Norte state, north-eastern Brazil. The chelipeds are subequal in size and similar to the major cheliped of normal male specimens of Uca rapax . This paper is the first record of the aforementioned anomaly for the species from the Brazilian coastline.