Porcellana platycheles

Porcellana platycheles
	Porcellana platycheles
Systematics
Subordination :	Pleocyemata
Partial order :	Crayfish (anomura)
Superfamily :	Galatheoidea
Family :	Porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae)
Genre :	Porcellana
Type :	Porcellana platycheles
Scientific name
	Porcellana platycheles
	( Pennant , 1777)

Porcellana platycheles is a type of cancer belonging to the porcelain cancer family. It occurs in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic from the Shetland Islands to the Canary Islands .

Way of life

The animals rarely larger than one centimeter live in shallow water within the intertidal zone . The crabs can usually be found under stones to which they cling to with their legs. They are filter feeders and hardly move from their place without disturbance.

Multiplication

The larval development of Porcellana platycheles takes place via two Zoëa larvae via a megalopa up to the adult . Megalopa, which is morphologically very similar to the adult animal, develops under laboratory conditions between two and three weeks after hatching; just over half of the hatched animals reach this stage.

Individual evidence

↑ Alvarez, RZ (1968). Crustáceos decápodos ibéricos. Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Patronato Juan de la Cierva.
^ Chace, FA (1956). Expédition océanographique Belge dans les eaux côtiéres africaines de l'Atlantique Sud (1948-1949). Results scientifiques, 3 (5), 17-43.
↑ Holthuis, LB, & Gottlieb, E. (1958). An annotated list of the decapod Crustacea of the Mediterranean coast of Israel, with an appendix listing the Decapoda of the eastern Mediterranean. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, (7B), 1–126.
↑ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107190
↑ Stevcic, Z. (1988). Autecological investigations of the porcelain crab Porcellana platycheles (Pennant) (Decapoda, Anomura) in the Rovinj Area (Northern Adriatic). Crustaceana, 55 (3), 242-252.
↑ González-Gordillo, JI, Cuesta, JA, & Rodríguez, A. (1996). Studies on the larval development of northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Procellanidae (Decapoda, Anomura). I - Redescription of the larval stages of Porcellana platycheles (Pennant, 1777) reared under laboratory conditions. Helgoland marine studies, 50 (4), 517-531.

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[1] Alvarez, RZ (1968). Crustáceos decápodos ibéricos. Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Patronato Juan de la Cierva.

[2] Chace, FA (1956). Expédition océanographique Belge dans les eaux côtiéres africaines de l'Atlantique Sud (1948-1949). Results scientifiques, 3 (5), 17-43.

[3] Holthuis, LB, & Gottlieb, E. (1958). An annotated list of the decapod Crustacea of the Mediterranean coast of Israel, with an appendix listing the Decapoda of the eastern Mediterranean. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, (7B), 1–126.

[4] ttp://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107190

[5] Stevcic, Z. (1988). Autecological investigations of the porcelain crab Porcellana platycheles (Pennant) (Decapoda, Anomura) in the Rovinj Area (Northern Adriatic). Crustaceana, 55 (3), 242-252.

[6] González-Gordillo, JI, Cuesta, JA, & Rodríguez, A. (1996). Studies on the larval development of northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Procellanidae (Decapoda, Anomura). I - Redescription of the larval stages of Porcellana platycheles (Pennant, 1777) reared under laboratory conditions. Helgoland marine studies, 50 (4), 517-531.