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Courtship in the Crayfish Procambar Us Clarkii (Girard) (Decapoda, Astacidea)

Courtship in the Crayfish Procambar Us Clarkii (Girard) (Decapoda, Astacidea) COURTSHIP IN THE CRAYFISH PROCAMBAR US CLARKII (GIRARD) (DECAPODA, ASTACIDEA) BY CHRISTOPHER AMEYAW-AKUMFI University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Mating behavior has been described in a number of species of crayfish. In Orconectes limosus (Rafinesque) Andrews (1895, 1910) observed that a male crayfish sometimes moved slowly toward a female before subsequently mounting her. However, he considered this deliberate, slow movement of the male toward a rather submissive female prior to copulation as an exception. His view was that the sexually aroused male upon coming in contact with a female as a matter of chance simply grabs her by the chelae, overturns her and proceeds to copulate with her. He stated that in those species that he worked on sex recognition was lacking. Later works by Pearse (1909) on Procambarus acutus (Girard) (as Cambarus blandingii acutus), Cambarus diogenes Girard and Orconectes airilis (Hagen) (as Cambarus viridis) and Chidester (1912) on Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius) supported Andrews' point of view. Male-male attempted matings have been cited by these workers to support their view, although these are very rare. In his account on Pacifastacus leniusculus trowbridgii (Stimpson), Mason (1970) also reported on the relative passivity of the female prior to mating. But http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crustaceana Brill

Courtship in the Crayfish Procambar Us Clarkii (Girard) (Decapoda, Astacidea)

Ameyaw-Akumfi, Christopher
Crustaceana , Volume 40 (1): 8 – Jan 1, 1981
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COURTSHIP IN THE CRAYFISH PROCAMBAR US CLARKII (GIRARD) (DECAPODA, ASTACIDEA) BY CHRISTOPHER AMEYAW-AKUMFI University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Mating behavior has been described in a number of species of crayfish. In Orconectes limosus (Rafinesque) Andrews (1895, 1910) observed that a male crayfish sometimes moved slowly toward a female before subsequently mounting her. However, he considered this deliberate, slow movement of the male toward a rather submissive female prior to copulation as an exception. His view was that the sexually aroused male upon coming in contact with a female as a matter of chance simply grabs her by the chelae, overturns her and proceeds to copulate with her. He stated that in those species that he worked on sex recognition was lacking. Later works by Pearse (1909) on Procambarus acutus (Girard) (as Cambarus blandingii acutus), Cambarus diogenes Girard and Orconectes airilis (Hagen) (as Cambarus viridis) and Chidester (1912) on Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius) supported Andrews' point of view. Male-male attempted matings have been cited by these workers to support their view, although these are very rare. In his account on Pacifastacus leniusculus trowbridgii (Stimpson), Mason (1970) also reported on the relative passivity of the female prior to mating. But

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Published: Jan 1, 1981

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