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[A case of malformation in Pachycheles serratus (Decapoda: Porcellanidae)]
C Lira1, G Hernández, J A Bolaños
1Universidad de Oriente, Núcleo de Nueva Esparta, Escuela de Ciencias Aplicadas del Mar, Grupo de Trabajo en Carcinología, 658 - Porlamar 6301, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela. clira@ne.udo.edu.ve
Revista De Biologia Tropical
|July 22, 2004
Abstract:
An adult male of Pachycheles serratus with a malformation on the right cheliped was found during a collection of anomuran crabs in coastal waters of the peninsula de Macanao, Margarita island, Venezuela. The specimen was found at La Carmela beach (11 degrees 04'N-64 degrees 20'W), and featured a bifurcated fixed finger on the right cheliped.

