Open AccessFIRST RECORD OF THE CRAB PODOCHELA CURVIROSTRIS (A. MILNE EDWARDS, 1979) (BRACHYURA: INACHIDAE) FROM THE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN
Author(s) -
Norella Cruz Castaño,
Luis A. Gómez-Lemos
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
boletin de investigaciones marinas y costeras/boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2590-4671
pISSN - 0122-9761
DOI - 10.25268/bimc.invemar.2007.36.0.356
Subject(s) - fishery , geography , biology
Podochela curvirostris, a crab of the family Inachidae, is reported for the first time from the Colombian Caribbean. This species was found associated with sponges and coralinacean algae at 107 m depth, in an area close to the Rosario Islands, near Cartagena.