Abstract
Significant works have been done on the diversity and distribution of porcellanids crabs in Indian coasts. The present work reports and describe porcelain crabs from the western coast of India. Five species of porcelain crabs in three genera are reported from the western coast of India. Morphological descriptions with measurement of the reported species with key characters and distribution status are given. Petrolisthes boscii (Audouin, 1826), P. lamarckii (Leach, 1820), and P. rufescens (Heller, 1861) are commonly distributed along the studied coast. Enosteoides ornatus (Stimpson, 1858) and Pachycheles tomentosus (Henderson, 1893) sparsely occur and are firstly reported from the Gujarat coast.
Highlights
Significant works have been done on the diversity and distribution of porcellanids crabs in Indian coasts
The anomuran crustacean family Porcellanidae can be distinguished from brachyura by having the fifth pereopod which is reduced in size and often hidden beneath the carapace, the antennae with an elongate flagellum and the abdomen which does not fit closely to the underside of the cephalothorax (Poore and Ahyong 2004; Osawa and Chan, 2010)
Significant works have been done on the diversity and distribution of porcellanids in Indian coasts
Summary
Significant works have been done on the diversity and distribution of porcellanids crabs in Indian coasts. We report five porcellanid species from Gujarat in the western coast of India. Intertidal zones of eight different locations on Gujarat coast were surveyed for the diversity of porcellanid fauna (Fig. 1).
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