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family, and represents a greater degree of ecological specialization. It has a relatively short developmental stage and can reproduce year round. The ability of female crabs to carry fertilized eggs days after the puberty molt aids in shorter generation times. In combination with strategies leading
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to Panama, but has spread to coastal waters of
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Japan, and New Zealand. Larvae float freely in coastal and estuarial waters up to 18 meters of depth. Adults live hidden among stones or on mud to sandy-mud bottoms up to depths of 412 meters. Adults and larvae were
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makes it so three generation cycles may take place each year. Females of the first generation lay eggs in early spring which reach maturity in late summer. This second generation releases eggs more quickly due to the warmer average water temperature, allowing for the third generation to settle and
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have a granulate and tuberculate carapace, with a short, backwards facing spine on the first abdominal segment. The species undergoes nine post-larval stages each separated by brief periods of molting. Beginning at the third crab stage, mature females can be differentiated from males by the large
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and small plankton, undergoing regular intervals of molting. There are two zoeal and one megalopa stage for larval tuberculata, which can be distinguished through analysis of carapace spines and relative width. In the first zoeal stage the carapace has a singular dorsal spine and the eyes are
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sessile, whereas in the second zoeal stage there are multiple small dorsal spines and eyes are slightly stalked. In the megalopa stage, the carapace lacks spines but is larger and more prominently lobed. After reaching the initial crab stage, it takes approximately 3 months for
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rounded sodomites which make up their abdominal plates and form a cavity to hold eggs. The carapace length of adult specimens in the ninth crab stage can reach up to 20 mm while the carapace width can reach approximately 18 mm.
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is abundant from the intertidal zone up to 80 meters of depth, with inner-bay populations being replenished each fall with larvae from crabs in the outer-bay, which do not experience the hypoxic die offs. Populations of
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has thrived due to its ability to quickly recolonize waters following instances of summer hypoxia. Smaller, native crabs have limited breeding seasons which restrict their ability to compete with the invasive
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to reach adulthood. There is no clear difference in body size or weight between adult males and females. Males can begin to reproduce after 47–81 days, while female can reproduce after 62–79 days.
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is characterized by a low number of post-larval stages which results in a shorter life span than other benthic crab species. This species also has a shorter larval phase, which is common in the
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eggs has an inverse relationship to the temperature in which the ovigerous females live, with eggs hatching after 7 days at 26°C, and 80 days at 8°C. Larvae are free floating and feed on
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Ahyong, Shane T. (April 2005). "Range extension of two invasive crab species in eastern
Australia: Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus) and Pyromaia tuberculata (Lockington)".
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Flores, Augusto A. V.; Marques, Fernando P. L.; Negreiros-Fransozo, Maria Lucia (May 2002). "Postlarval Stages and Growth
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Tavares, Marcos (2011), Galil, Bella S.; Clark, Paul F.; Carlton, James T. (eds.), "Alien
Decapod Crustaceans in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean",
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has now also spread to the western Pacific, as specimens of
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is native to the pacific coast of North America from
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