Open AccessReproductive patterns of Aratus pisonii (Decapoda: Grapsidae) an estuarine area of Sao Paulo Northern Coast, Brazil
Author(s) -
Maria Helena de Arruda Leme,
Maria Lúcia Negreiros-Fransozo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
revista de biología tropical
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2215-2075
pISSN - 0034-7744
DOI - 10.15517/rbt.v46i3.20130
Subject(s) - mangrove , littoral zone , decapoda , estuary , ecology , geography , biology , arid , fishery , crustacean
The tree crab Aratus pisanii (H. Milne Edwards 1837) is a tropical sesarminae species widely distributed in the western Atlantic from central Florida to Brazil, arid in the eastem Pacific from Nioaragua to Peru (Melo 1996), being commonly found 00 the upper littoral zone in mangroves.