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- Title
Who is smashing the reef at night? A nocturnal mystery.
- Authors
Shlesinger, T.; Akkaynak, D.; Loya, Y.
- Abstract
Carpilius, coral crab, coral reef, natural history, nocturnal behavior, predation, Red Sea, marine ecology (a) A female coral crab breaking apart a colony of the branching fire coral (Millepora dichotoma) to prey on a worm-snail (Ceraesignum maximum) embedded in the coral skeleton. (c) A female coral crab crushing and feasting on barnacles (Tetraclita rufotincta, also see Video S1). gl The crab I C. convexus i is one of three extant species of carpiliid crabs, commonly known as coral crabs; two ( I C i . Phylogenetic relationships within the coral crab genus Carpilius (Brachyura, Xanthoidea, Carpiliidae) and of the Carpiliidae to other xanthoid crab families based on molecular sequence data.
- Subjects
CORALS; CORAL reef ecology; DECAPODA; PREDATION; REEFS; NOCTURNAL animals; PHENOMENOLOGICAL biology; MARINE biology
- Publication
Ecology, 2021, Vol 102, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ecy.3420