Menippe

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Noun1.Menippe - stone crabsMenippe - stone crabs        
genus Menippe
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Brachyura, suborder Brachyura - an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface
Menippe mercenaria, stone crab - large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida)
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Effects of air exposure and claw breaks on survival of stone crabs Menippe mercenaria.
A comparison of laboratory-holding and tag-return methods for evaluating delayed mortality of Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) discarded in Oregon fisheries
In crabs (Callinectes sapidus, Callineces similis, Neopanope sayi, Libinia emarginata, Menippe mercenaria) from a Georgia estuary.
PATHOLOGY, EFFECTS, AND TRANSMISSION OF BLACK GILL IN COMMERCIAL PENAEID SHRIMP FROM THE SOUTH ATLANTIC BIGHT
Commercially important fishery species such as the Nassau grouper Epinephelus striatus (Dahlgren and Eggleston, 2000), Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus (Eggleston and Lipcius, 1992), New Zealand rock lobster Jasus edwardsii (Butler et al., 1999), stone crab Menippe mercenaria (Beck.
Effects of prior experience on shelter-seeking behavior of juvenile American lobsters
Relative growth and sexual maturity of the stone crab Menippe nodifrons Stimpson, 1859 (Brachyura, Xanthoidea) in Southeastern Brazil.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY AND SIZE AT SEXUAL MATURITY OF PENAEUS MERGUIENSIS (DE MAN, 1887) FROM THE SONMIANI BAY LAGOON, BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN
Life-History aspects of the stone crabs (Genus Menippe): size at maturity, growth and age.
Biologia poblacional del cangrejo de manglar Ucides cordatus (Decapoda: Ucididae) en un estuario tropical semiarido
daira (Godart, 1819), Itaballia demophile (Linnaeus, 1763) y Anteos menippe (Hubner, 1818).
Mariposas hesperioidea y papilionoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) en un fragmento de Bosque Seco Tropical, Atlantico, Colombia
Differing mostly in color, the Florida version (Menippe mercenaria) looks tan while the Gulf version (Menippe adina) has a dark, chocolate tint.
Stone cold crabbers: when family and friends turn to crabbing, watch out
Esta alta mortalidad puede deberse a predadores naturales que coexisten con la especie en la zona, tales como los gasteropodos Cymatium pileare, Fasciolaria tulipa y Murex brevifrons, entre otros (Villafranca y Jimenez, 2004), los crustaceos Callinectes danae y Menippe nodifrons (Urosa, 1972), y mas probablemente a la intensa explotacion pesquera de que es objeto la especie, que explicaria la disminucion de la densidad del mejillon durante la realizacion del estudio.
Population dynamics aspects of Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Morro de Guarapo, Araya peninsula, Venezuela
Based on total landings, important crab species in the commercial market are Atlantic rock (Cancer irroratus), blue (Callinectes sapidus), dungeness (Cancer magister), king (Paralithodes camtschatica), Florida snow claws (Menippe mercenaria), and snow/tanner (Chinoecetes spp.).
Mercury exposure from domestic and imported estuarine and marine fish in the U.S. seafood market
THE EFFECTS OF SUBSTRATE STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY ON TWO POPULATIONS OF STONE CRABS (MENIPPE ADINA) FROM OYSTER REEFS IN THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND
MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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