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An overview of all the freshwater Indian Crabs known:


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334672429_New_records_of_two_species_of_freshwater_crabs_Decapoda_Gecarcinucidae_from_Kerala_India_with_notes_on_their_distribution

https://m.thewire.in/article/environment/meet-the-western-ghats-wonderful-new-freshwater-crabs

https://m.timesofindia.com/city/bengaluru/karnataka-new-freshwater-crab-species-spotted-in-western-ghats/articleshow/93669550.cms

Ghatiana, Gubernatoriana & Inglethelphusa (Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae)

Around 1,300 species of freshwater crabs are distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics, divided among eight families.

Now we can add at least a dozen more to that list thanks to an Indian team which has
Revisited- with Descriptions of Eleven New Species and an entirely new genus of crab : Sahyadriana.

A group of herpetology and crustacean have been quite busy publishing results of new discoveries that stem back to 2014 and 2018 expeditions to the Western Ghats Mountains During the Monsoon Season.

The researcher' team comprised
Sameer Kumar Pati of Zoological Survey
of India, Western Regional Centre in
Pune, Tejas Thackeray of Thackeray
Wildlife Foundation, Parashuram P
Bajantri of Karnataka forest department
and Gopalkrishna D Hegde.


Currently, 120 species of freshwater crabs under 35 genera and two families are found in India. Kerala is the most species-rich (35 species) state in India followed by Maharashtra (29 species) and Assam (21 species). The Western Ghats of India now includes 17 genera and 58 species of gecarcinucid crabs. A checklist and distribution of Indian freshwater crabs is provided.

According to the researchers, these crabs usually inhabit tiny holes 25-52mm in diameter, and come out during the monsoon season. They were discovered by a group of grad students looking for new snake species. Essentially by accidentally discovering one of the new species during a downpour, while finding shelter in a canyon with small scrub and trees, when they saw the small and beautiful crabs eating worms and small arboreal leaches.

Seeing as leaches are essentially a protein rich food, it is assumed by many, that foods such as bloodworms, black worms, small meal worms and or even larval foods for reptiles would likely provide a fairly well rounded diet for captivity.

Most of these freshwater crabs live near cracks and holes in laterite stone formations, as well as on trees and semisubmerged areas such as slot canyons.

The reproduce by caring live, higher order young, meaning they carry eggs, and then either hatch live, fully formed young, or even withhold the young under the carapace of the mother until able to fend for themselves.

Higher order or secondary spawning crustacean are essentially Miniature versions of their adult body morphology, but unlike most marine crabs, which may spawn thousands of larval young of planktonic size- these crabs all seem to give birth to far fewer young, and also have been documented building nests and tending to their young for several weeks after they emerge as tiny, far less vivid versions of the adults.

Needles to say, this is an exciting development for the Zoological and biological fields, and yet again highlights why we must protect regions like the Ghats mountain of India, to help maintain the amazingly beautiful biodiversity that exists in places like this.

It is yet to be known how widespread thesr crabs may be, but they seem to have evolved as specialists and echo the Taiwanese micro crabs and Indonesian "vampire crab" species. Which have both been successfully kept and readily bred in captivity.

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