Observations and possible function of the striking anterior coloration pattern of Galathea intermedia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2001
Abstract
Galathea intermedia is common, but cryptic, on Clyde maerl deposits where it lives in small groups of mixed sex and age, sharing shelters (typically dead Dosinia shells) to avoid predation. Its appearance is marked by six iridescent blue spots which may play an important role in intra- or interspecific interactions.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 371 - 372
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- © 1999 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
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