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Asiel Cabrera Guerrero Abdiel Jover Capote

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Epibiotic algae are identified in three brachyuran crabs that inhabit intertidal pools.Crustaceans were collected by SCUBA diving and all the algae present in the exoskeleton were removed. Fifteen epibiotic algae are identified on Macrocoeloma trispinosum (Latreille, 1825), Omalacantha bicornuta (Latreille, 1825) and Actaea bifrons Rathbun, 1898. The most frequent species are filamentous and small algae of the families Ceramiaceae and Cladophoraceae. The algae Sphacelaria tribuloides and Cladophora catenate were identified on the exoskeletons of the three species of brachyrans.

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masking, Decorator crabs, algae–crab’s interactions

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Cabrera Guerrero, A., & Jover Capote, A. (2019). Algae epibionts in brachyuran (Crustacea) of two intertidal tide pools in the south-east coast of Cuba. Novitates Caribaea, (13), 13–21. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i13.189

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