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Title: | The first record of an eastern Pacific invasive crab in Taiwanese waters: Amphithrax armatus (Saussure, 1853) (Brachyura: Majoidea: Mithracidae), with notes on the taxonomy of the genus |
Authors: | Ng, Peter K. L. Ho, Ping-Ho Lin, Chia-Wei Yang, Chien-Hui |
Keywords: | PHYLOGENETIC TREE SELECTION;MIXED MODELS;DECAPODA;CRUSTACEA;SEA;BIODIVERSITY;CONFIDENCE;SEQUENCES;MAJIDAE;LIST |
Issue Date: | Mar-2018 |
Publisher: | OXFORD UNIV PRESS |
Journal Volume: | 38 |
Journal Issue: | 2 |
Start page/Pages: | 198-205 |
Source: | Journal of Crustacean Biology |
Abstract: | The tropical Eastern Pacific mithracid spider crab Amphithrax armatus (Saussure, 1853), known thus far only from Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama, is here reported for the first time from southern Taiwan in the Indo-West Pacific region. The invasive species probably entered via ballast water or as fouling fauna on large ships that ply the Pacific shipping routes. This is only the second record of an ... |
URI: | http://scholars.ntou.edu.tw/handle/123456789/20787 |
ISSN: | 0278-0372 |
DOI: | 10.1093/jcbiol/rux109 |
Appears in Collections: | 海洋生物研究所 15 LIFE ON LAND 環境生物與漁業科學學系 |
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