Breeding and fecundity of the sub-Antarctic crab Halicarcinus planatus (Crustacea: Hymenosomatidae) in the Deseado River estuary, Argentina

• Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Main Authors: Ferrari, Lucrecia, Gil, Damian Gaspar, Vinuesa, Julio Hector
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HALICARCINUS PLANATUS; INCUBATION TIME; SPAWNING; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Argentina; Hector; Patagonia; San Juan; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/84725

Halicarcinus planatus is the only species of the genus occurring at the southern tip of South America, in sub-Antarctic, cold-temperate waters. Previously it has been shown that the population from the estuary of the Deseado River presents a spatial segregation by sex, a complete overlapping of size...