Morphological and genetic analyses suggest that southern African crown crabs, Hymenosoma orbiculare, represent five distinct species

Edkins, M T; Teske, Peter R; Papadopoulos, Isabelle; Griffiths, C L

Title: Morphological and genetic analyses suggest that southern African crown crabs, Hymenosoma orbiculare, represent five distinct species
Creator: Edkins, M T
Creator: Teske, Peter R
Creator: Papadopoulos, Isabelle
Creator: Griffiths, C L
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2007
Date: 2007
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445701
Identifier: vital:74415
Identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107852
Description: The crown crab, Hymenosoma orbiculare, occurs all along the coast of southern Africa displays great morphological variation across this range. To determine whether the species c several distinct taxonomic units, H. orbiculare were collected from 18 estuaries and lagoons Walvis Bay in Namibia and Kosi Bay in north-eastern South Africa. Open ocean individua also obtained from False Bay in south-western South Africa. Morphological and genet mitochondrial DNA) comparisons were carried out between individuals from all locatio monophyletic clusters were identified on the basis of genetic data, each confined to specific of the distribution range. Morphological data supported the distinctness of each of these clus typical H. orbiculare, characterized by large size (maximum carapace width 28 mm) and of the characteristic ornamentations of other morphotypes, occurred in estuaries and lag along the west and south coasts. False Bay deep-water individuals were of two forms.
Format: 18 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Crustaceana
Relation: Edkins, M.T., Teske, P.R., Papadopoulos, I. and Griffiths, C.L., 2007. Morphological and genetic analyses suggest that southern African crown crabs, Hymenosoma orbiculare, represent five distinct species. Crustaceana, pp.667-683
Relation: Crustaceana volume 2007 number 1 667 683 2007 1568-5403
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