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A record of skeleton shrimp Paracaprella pusilla Mayer, 1890 from Mumbai waters

Volume 51 Issue 1

Vishal Jayant Bhave and V. D. Deshmukh

Abstract

Caprellid shrimp Paracaprella pusilla Mayer, 1890 is recorded from Vasai near Mumbai along the northwest coast of India for the first time. Since earlier record of the species from the southwest coast was based on a single female specimen, the description of male with dimorphic characters is presented.

Keywords

Caprellid shrimp, amphipod, Paracaprella pusilla

Date : 01-09-2009

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