Morphometric Measurements, Gonopod and Gonopores Appearances in Early Sexual Crablet Stage of Scylla paramamosain (Estampador, 1949)
Morphometric Measurements, Gonopod and Gonopores Appearances in Early Sexual Crablet Stage of Scylla paramamosain (Estampador, 1949)
Muhammad Nur Syafaat1,2, Che Zulkifli Che-Ismail3, Adnan Amin-Safwan2, Mohamad N. Azra2, Mohammad Syahnon2, Ambok Bolong Abol-Munafi2 and Mhd Ikhwanuddin2*
Estimation of male and female based on abdominal flap shape in C5 stages and the six lines on abdominal flap that used to make a ratio for t-test purpose.
Verification of sex prediction. (A) Male; (B) Female.
Abdominal flap shape and the appearance of gonopores (circle) in different carapace width of female crablet of S. paramamosain.
Abdominal flap shape and the appearance of gonopod (arrow) in different carapace width of male crablet of S. paramamosain.
The appearance of gonopod inside abdomen flap of crablet with different carapace width of S. paramamosain
The appearance of forked pleopod inside abdomen flap of S. paramamosain crablet with different size of carapace width (CW).
Crablet’s abdominal flap observed from C1 to C7 crablet stages of S. paramamosain.