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Crabs : A Global Natural History
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introducing crabs
- Classification chart
- 1. EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS
- What's in a name? Crab precursors and impostors
- Crabs in prehistory
- Evolutionary trends within brachyurans
- Robber crab
- Halloween hermit crab
- Puget Sound king crab
- Durian crab
- Slender frog crab
- Shaggy shore crab
- Green-spotted gall crab
- Spiny-clawed deep-sea crab
- 2. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
- How crabs are put together: external anatomy
- What's hidden inside: internal anatomy and physiology
- Yellowline arrow crab
- Slender-clawed boxer crab
- Gaudy clown crab
- Lopsided crab
- Pretty crested reef crab
- Rough-shelled porter crab
- Guinot's agile reef crab
- Malaysian face-stripe mangrove crab
- Horn-eyed ghost crab
- 3. CRAB ECOLOGY
- A most successful group...
- Crab environments
- Living with others: symbioses
- Christmas Island blind cave crab
- Gaimard's spider crab
- Hourdezi's hydrothermal vent crab
- Sally Lightfoot crab
- Red-kneed soldier crab
- Lewinsohn's sponge crab
- Harlequin swimming crab
- Sculptured crab
- Adams zebra crab
- 4. REPRODUCTION, COGNITION AND BEHAVIOUR
- Reproduction
- Behaviour and intelligence
- Striped box crab
- Christmas Island red crab
- Candy crab
- Superb decorator crab
- Arrowhead crab
- Stalk-eyed shore crab
- Thick-legged fiddler crab
- Garfunkel's crab
- 5. EXPLOITATION AND CONSERVATION
- Crabs as food
- Crabs and disease
- Crabs behaving badly
- Crab conservation
- Red king crab
- Spanner crab
- Tiger crab
- Common European spider crab
- Horsehair crab
- Chinese mitten crab
- European edible crab
- Little red vampire crab
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- Picture Credits
- Acknowledgements