Porcelain crab


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(Zool.) any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace.

See also: Porcelain

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The highest occurring temperate porcelain crab had ABTs for heart function that essentially coincided with the highest body temperatures it encounters in the field, and it had a lower ability to increase ABT during warm acclimation.
Evolutionary and acclimation-induced variation in the thermal limits of heart function in congeneric marine snails (genus Tegula): implications for vertical zonation
Costs and gains of porcelain crab suspension feeding in different flow conditions.
Dietary preference and digestive enzyme activities as indicators of trophic resource utilization by six species of crab
along with the porcelain crab Petrolisthes armatus and the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis comprising 84% to 94% of the samples by number.
The role of oysters in habitat use of oyster reefs by resident fishes and decapod crustaceans
Certainly, the porcelain crab Petrolisthes cinctipes, which occupies a similar niche, may be exposed to temperatures under rocks in excess of 20[degrees]C (Stillman and Somero, 1996).
Behavioral thermoregulation in hemigrapsus nudus, the amphibious purple shore crab
The ratio of the porcelain crab Petrolisthes armatus to the mud crab Eurypanopeus depressus (STENO:EURY) has also been suggested as a useful metric for assessing the effects of freshwater inflow on oyster-reef communities (Shirley et al.
Influence of salinity on the habitat use of oyster reefs in three Southwest Florida estuaries
Predator and prey behavior can play a role in relationships between native and invasive species, as is the case with nonnative porcelain crabs in the southeastern United States, which are only consumed by small female (but not male) mud crabs (Pintor & Byers 2015).
Differential response of the American lobster Homarus americanus to the invasive Asian shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus and green crab Carcinus maenas
Intertidal zonation among congeners: factors regulating distribution of porcelain crabs Petrolisthes spp.
Influencia de las variables ambientales sobre la distribucion de cangrejos porcelanidos de la zona intermareal de la Bahia de Sepetiba, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
He Xie-- hundreds of porcelain crabs that are installed on the floor-- is a depiction of a feast that he wanted to host when authorities placed him under house arrest as they threatened to dismantle his studio in Shanghai in 2010.
Art for protest's sake
The title translates to "river crab," and it features thousands of porcelain crabs made in China's historic ceramic center, Jingdezhen, arranged in one corner of the museum.
Ai Weiwei: According to What?
It is therefore unlikely that the closure behavior observed here is the result of the crabs becoming incapacitated due to osmotic water onload (Prosser and Brown, 1961; Norfolk, 1978; Mantel and Farmer, 1983), as occurs in porcelain crabs (Davenport, 1972).
Behavioral influences on the physiological responses of Cancer gracilis, the graceful crab, during hyposaline exposure
Moreover, a half-degree jump in the Earth's temperature could be enough to wipe out countless porcelain crabs.
Global warming role reversal
Most of the known porcelain crabs in the tropical eastern Pacific are free-living.
Pisidia magdalenensis (Crustacea: Porcellanidae) commensal of the diogenid hermit crab Petrochirus californiensis (Decapoda: Diogenidae)
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