Screen LibraryFiddler crabs of the world : ocypididae, genus UCA /
Jocelyn Crane presents a survey of the members of the genus Uca, with special reference to their morphology, social behavior, and evolution. Her account is firmly based on numerous field studies along the world's warmer shores and on comparative work in laboratories and museums.Originally publi...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jocelyn Crane presents a survey of the members of the genus Uca, with special reference to their morphology, social behavior, and evolution. Her account is firmly based on numerous field studies along the world's warmer shores and on comparative work in laboratories and museums.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(766pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400867936 |
| Index Number: | QL444 |
| CLC: | Q959.223 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Introduction -- I. Deltuca subgen. nov. -- II. Australuca subgen. nov. -- III. Thalassuca subgen. nov. -- IV. Amphiuca subgen. nov. -- V. Boboruca subgen. nov. -- VI. Afruea subgen. nov. -- VII. Subgenus Uea Leach (sensu Bott, 1954) -- VIII. Subgenus Minuea Bott, 1954 -- IX. Celuca subgen. nov. -- Figures. Part 1 -- Figures. Part II -- Figures. Part III -- Maps -- Chapter 1. Zoogeography -- Chapter 2. Ecology -- Chapter 3. Structures and their Functions -- Chapter 4. Non-Social Activities -- Chapter 5. Components of Social Behavior -- Chapter 6. Territoriality, Functions of Combat and Display, and the Origins of Social Patterns -- Chapter 7. Speciation, Phylogeny, and Directions of Evolution -- Plates. Part I -- Appendix A. Material Examined -- Appendix . Keys -- Appendix C. Tables -- Appendix D. Field Methods and the Maintenance of Fiddler Crabs in Captivity -- Appendix . Conventions, Abbreviations, and Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index to Scientific Names -- General Index. |