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Occurrence and Seasonal Abundance of Sesarmiid Crab Pseudosesarma edwardsii De Man in Hugli-Matla Estuary, West Bengal


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1 Lake Town Girls' College, Lake Town, Kolkata-700 089, India
2 KBB Nivedita College, Behala, Kolkata-700 034, India
3 Zoological Survey of India, FPS Building, 27, J. N. Road, Kolkata–700 016, India
     

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The sesarmid crab Pseudosesarma edwardsii (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmiidae) was described by De Man in 1887 as Sesarma edwardsii from "Bengalischen Meerbusen" ( = Bay of Bengal). Alcock (1900 cited from 1984, reprint edition) reported this crab from Myanmar coast, Sri Lanka, Andaman islands and Gangetic delta (without giving precise locality data).
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  • Occurrence and Seasonal Abundance of Sesarmiid Crab Pseudosesarma edwardsii De Man in Hugli-Matla Estuary, West Bengal

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Sobhana Paul
Lake Town Girls' College, Lake Town, Kolkata-700 089, India
Mousumi Roy
KBB Nivedita College, Behala, Kolkata-700 034, India
M. K. Dev Roy
Zoological Survey of India, FPS Building, 27, J. N. Road, Kolkata–700 016, India

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The sesarmid crab Pseudosesarma edwardsii (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmiidae) was described by De Man in 1887 as Sesarma edwardsii from "Bengalischen Meerbusen" ( = Bay of Bengal). Alcock (1900 cited from 1984, reprint edition) reported this crab from Myanmar coast, Sri Lanka, Andaman islands and Gangetic delta (without giving precise locality data).