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Revista de Biología Tropical
On-line version ISSN 0034-7744Print version ISSN 0034-7744
Abstract
DE ARRUDA LEME, Maria Helena and NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO, Maria Lucia. Reproductive patterns of Aratus pisonii (Decapoda: Grapsidae) from an estuarine area of São Paulo Northern Coast, Brazil. Rev. biol. trop [online]. 1998, vol.46, n.3, pp.673-678. ISSN 0034-7744.
This paper describes the frequency of occurrence and reproductive patterns of the tree mangrove crab Aratus pisonii. Monthly samples were taken from January 1993 to June 1994 in an estuarine mangrove from Ubatuba region. Brazil. A total of 1 078 animals 489 males and 589 females (131 ovigerous females) were collected. Carapace width ranged from 4.2 to 25.9 mm. A summer reproductive peak followed by a recruitment juvenile pulse was verified. Females were more abundant than males in the intermediate size classes. The sex-ratio in several months was biased towards females, suggesting a poligynous population and migration of females to mangrove fringes at the time of incubation and apawning.
Keywords : Grapsidae; Reproduction; Sex-ratio; aratus pisonii; Brazil.