Swimming and the Stockade: Defensive Behaviors in the False Arrow Crab, Metoporhaphis calcarata (Brachyura: Inachidae)

Mary K. Wicksten

doi:10.1651/10-3379.1

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Mary K. Wicksten

Abstract

I observed and obtained video footage of swimming behavior in Metoporhaphis calcarata. The behavior is described and illustrated by tracings of video stills over a one-second interval. The fifth pereiopods do not end in paddles, as do those of crabs in Portunidae, but rather are fringed with pinnate setae. On the sea floor, these crabs can form a “stockade” consisting of the acute rostrum and a circle of thorns on the distal surfaces of the pereiopods.

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Mary K. Wicksten "Swimming and the Stockade: Defensive Behaviors in the False Arrow Crab, Metoporhaphis calcarata (Brachyura: Inachidae)," Journal of Crustacean Biology 31(2), 249-253, (1 May 2011). https://doi.org/10.1651/10-3379.1

Received: 22 July 2010; Accepted: 1 November 2010; Published: 1 May 2011