Biomaterial Database

Porcelain crabs from Brazil (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae). 2016

Luciane Augusto De Azevedo Ferreira, and Gustavo Augusto Schmidt De Melo

Postgraduate Program, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo.; Email: lucianeaaf@gmail.com.

Twenty species of porcelain crabs are reported on the basis of material collected from Brazilian coasts. Considering the lack of systematic studies comprehending the Brazilian porcellanids, the present work presents a review of the regional species based on the current taxonomic information. New records, information about variation between specimens and a taxonomic discussion are given for porcellanid crabs from Brazil.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D001938	Brazil	A country located on the eastern coast of South America, located between Colombia and Peru, that borders the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, on the south by Uruguay, and on the west by Argentina. The capital is Brasilia.
D005260	Female		Females
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D013045	Species Specificity	The restriction of a characteristic behavior, anatomical structure or physical system, such as immune response; metabolic response, or gene or gene variant to the members of one species. It refers to that property which differentiates one species from another but it is also used for phylogenetic levels higher or lower than the species.	Species Specificities,Specificities, Species,Specificity, Species
D033381	Anomura	An infraorder of CRUSTACEA, in the order DECAPODA comprising the hermit crabs and characterized by a small fifth pair of legs.	Hermit Crab,Pagurus,Paralithodes,Hermit Crabs,Anomuras,Crab, Hermit,Crabs, Hermit,Paralithode
D063147	Animal Distribution	A process by which animals in various forms and stages of development are physically distributed through time and space.	Animal Dispersal,Animal Dispersals,Animal Distributions,Dispersal, Animal,Dispersals, Animal,Distribution, Animal,Distributions, Animal