An Unusually Small Egg-Carrying Callinectes sapidus in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Authors

Robin M. Overstreet, Gulf Coast Research LaboratoryFollow
Harriett M. Perry, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Gerald Adkins, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1983

Comments

Published in Gulf Research Reports (1983) 7(3): 293-294. Copyright 1983, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. Used by permission.

Abstract

This communication reports the smallest verified egg-carrying specimen of Callinectes sapidus. With a carapace 20 mm long by 47 mm wide, the female measures considerably less than most other mature individuals, but about the same as an average-sized individual infected with an adult specimen of the rhizocephalan Loxothylacus texanus.