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Diversity and Distribution of Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) around the Arabian Sea

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  • 1. Department of Life Science and Research Center for Global Change Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan. *Correspondence: E-mail: htshih@dragon.nchu.edu.tw (Shih)
  • 2. Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Parangipettai - 608 502, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • 3. Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
  • 4. Center of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan. E-mail: noorusaher@yahoo.com (Saher)
  • 5. Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Sakrand- 67210, Sindh, Pakistan. E-mail: aso_sindh@hotmail.com (Odhano)
  • 6. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. E-mail: paulay@flmnh.ufl.edu (Paulay)

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Shih, Hsi-Te, Prema, Mani, Kumar, Austin Anand Jeya, Saher, Noor Us, Ravichandran, Samuthirapandian, Odhano, Sahir, Paulay, Gustav (2022): Diversity and Distribution of Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) around the Arabian Sea. Zoological Studies 61 (65): 1-18, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2022.61-65, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12826456

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