Diversity and abundance of mangrove fiddle crabs, genus <i>Uca</i> (Decapoda, Ocypodidae) at a mangrove in Kema, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

RIANTA Pratiwi; ERNAWATI Widyastuti; CHEN Guangcheng; CHEN Shunyang

doi:10.1007/s13131-018-1336-8

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RIANTA Pratiwi, ERNAWATI Widyastuti, CHEN Guangcheng, CHEN Shunyang. Diversity and abundance of mangrove fiddle crabs, genus Uca (Decapoda, Ocypodidae) at a mangrove in Kema, North Sulawesi, Indonesia[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(12): 92-96. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1336-8

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RIANTA Pratiwi, ERNAWATI Widyastuti, CHEN Guangcheng, CHEN Shunyang. Diversity and abundance of mangrove fiddle crabs, genus Uca (Decapoda, Ocypodidae) at a mangrove in Kema, North Sulawesi, Indonesia[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(12): 92-96. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1336-8

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Diversity and abundance of mangrove fiddle crabs, genus Uca (Decapoda, Ocypodidae) at a mangrove in Kema, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1336-8

1.
Research Center for Oceanography, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta 14430, Indonesia
2.
Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China

Received Date: 2017-06-15

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Mangrove ecosystems are sites with high biodiversity of benthic fauna, and fiddler crabs (genus Uca) are common benthic fauna in mangroves. The North Sulawesi in Indonesia has a good condition of mangrove while the information of the fiddler crabs is still limited. Manual samplings were conducted in wet, dry and transient seasons at a mangrove in Kema, North Sulawesi to investigate the species composition, density and distribution pattern of fiddler crabs. A total of 168 individuals, subjected to eight species of genus Uca crabs were collected at the mangrove, with U. triangularis having the highest abundance and U. annulipes having the lowest abundance. The densities of fiddle crabs were 27.56 ind./m², 32.89 ind./m² and 14.22 ind./m² at the seaward, middle and landward zones, respectively, and the density was higher in dry and wet seasons than in transient season.
- Crustacea,
- genus Uca,
- species,
- mangrove,
- North Sulawesi,
- Indonesia

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