Moult cycle and growth of the crab Halicarcinus planatus (Brachyura, Hymenosomatidae) in the Beagle Channel, southern tip of South America

• Published in: Helgoland Marine Research
• Main Authors: Diez, Mariano Javier, Lovrich, Gustavo Alejandro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: Ecdysis; Decapoda; Sub-Antarctic; Terminal Moult; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Austral; Argentina; Gustavo; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/26715

The crab Halicarcinus planatus is the only hymenosomatid crab that inhabits the southern tip of South America and is the only decapod species that reproduces twice a year in the Beagle Channel. In this article, we study the moult cycle in the field (moult frequency, analysis of size frequency distri...