10.6084/m9.figshare.6045293.v1
Luciane Augusto de Azevedo Ferreira
Luciane Augusto de Azevedo
Ferreira
New records of intersexuality in porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)
SciELO journals
2018
Intersex
Malacostraca
pollution
anomuran crabs
sexual characters
2018-03-28 02:43:34
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<div><p>Abstract The occurrence of intersex specimens of Lissoporcellana quadrilobata (Miers, 1884), Pisidia bluteli (Risso, 1816) and Pisidia longimana (Risso, 1816) is recorded for the first time and their secondary sexual characters analyzed. Intersex specimens were collected in regions regularly affected by pollution. There is a high possibility that intersexuality in porcelain crabs is caused by environmental contamination.</p></div>