Resumen de Expansion of occurrence of two bat crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Parthenopidae) from the West to the Southeast Coast of India

So Ravichandran, Ramasamy Anbuchezhian, Ka Sivasubramaniyan, Ge Rameshkumar

• English

  Duas espécies de caranguejos foram registradas pela primeira vez na costa sudeste da Índia, Cryptopodia fornicata and Cryptopodia angulata (Crustacea, Brachyura, Parthenopidae). Os exemplares estavam sexualmente maduros e amplia-se a ocorrência das espécies do Mar Arábico (costa oeste) para a Baia de Bengala (costa leste).

• português

  Studies of distribution of any marine organism are very important to know the span of expansion in the oceans and to find out the factors behind that occurrence. In the present study two species of crabs, Cryptopodia fornicata and Cryptopodia angulata (Crustacea, Brachyura, Parthenopidae) were reported for the first time in the Point Calimere coastal region, Southeast Coast of India. All the specimens were found to be sexually mature. This is the rare occurrence of these two bat crabs in Indian Coast which expands in its known range. In the present observation records a second distributional area of the species and signifi cantly extends the range from the West coast to the Southeast coast of India.