4 new purple crab species found in Palawan
04/22/2012
Four new species of freshwater crab, bright purple in colour, have
been discovered in the biologically diverse Philippines, by a team led
by Hendrik Freitag, of Germany’s Senckenberg Museum of Zoology.
The tiny crustaceans were found in streams in remote areas of the Palawan island group.
“They
are semi-aquatic and hide in burrows at the stream bank, which are
usually found under boulders and roots,” Freitag said in a paper
published in the latest edition of the National University of
Singapore’s Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.
“Their eggs hatch directly into juvenile crabs and the creatures emerge at night to forage under water,” Freitag added..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120422nat8.html
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