New record of the monotypic shrimp genus Procletes (Decapoda:Pandalidae) from the West coast of India

Autor: Barkha Purohit, Kauresh D. Vachhrajani
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Cuadernos de investigación UNED, Vol 11, Iss 3 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1659-4266
1659-441X
DOI: 10.22458/urj.v11i3.2600
Popis: Introduction: Significant work has been done on the diversity and distribution of pandalid shrimps in Indian waters but reports did not include the presence of this species. Objective: To list the marine shrimps of Gujarat. Methods: Samples were collected from trawl catch. Results: Procletes levicarina is reported for first time from the coastal area of Gujarat, including a detailed morphological description and photographs. This species is previously reported from the east coast of India. Conclusion: Procletes levicarina occurs in the west coast of India.
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