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The Reproductive Behaviour and Mate Choice of the Fiddler Crab (Uca Lactea Lactea) in Mid-Taiwan
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1990
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BiologyThe Fiddler CrabReproductive SuccessBreeding BehaviorUca Lactea LacteaFertilityFitnessNatural SciencesU. VocansEvolutionary BiologySexual SelectionFiddler CrabZoological TaxonomyReproductive Behaviour
THE REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR AND MATE CHOICE OF THE FIDDLER CRAB (UCA LACTEA LACTEA) IN MID-TAIWAN by LUCIA LIU SEVERINGHAUS and HUI-CHEN LIN1)2) (Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.) (With 4 Figures) (Acc. 8-III-1990) Introduction Uca reproduces in either semi-monthly cycles (CRANE, 1958; CHRISTY, 1978, 1982a, 1982b; GREENSPAN, 1982; SALMON, 1984) or monthly cycles (ZUCKER, 1978). Recent studies of the mating system and mate choice of U. pugilator and U. vocans found the two species to be very different from each other (CHRISTY, 1983; CHRISTY & SALMON, 1984; SALMON, 1984). U. vocans is widely distributed in the tropical western