Reproductive cycle of the swimming crab Portunus spinimanus Latreille (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil

Santos, Sandro; Negreiros-Fransozo, Maria Lucia

doi:10.1590/S0101-81751999000400025

Abstract

This study analyses some reproductive aspects of Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819, a crab usually commercialized in Ubatuba region. Monthly otter-trawl collections were taken for two years along the northern coast of São Paulo State, Brazil. The reproductive period was studied based on the frequency of ovigerous females in the population along the year; the frequency of physiologically mature swimming crabs and the type of spawn. The condition of development of ovigerous females ovary was associated with the stage of eggs development. This species presents continuous reproduction in Ubatuba region and total spawn, but with successive broods, which suggests a multiple spawn during the reproduction period.

Portunus spinimanus; reproduction; spawn; Brazilian coast

Reproductive cycle of the swimming crab Portunus spinimanus Latreille (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil

Sandro Santos^I,III; Maria Lucia Negreiros-Fransozo^II,III

^IDepartamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. 97105-900 Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

^IIDepartamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Centro de Aquicultura, Universidade Estadual Paulista. 18618-000 Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil

^IIINEBECC, Group of Studies on Crustacean Biology, Ecology and Culture

ABSTRACT

This study analyses some reproductive aspects of Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819, a crab usually commercialized in Ubatuba region. Monthly otter-trawl collections were taken for two years along the northern coast of São Paulo State, Brazil. The reproductive period was studied based on the frequency of ovigerous females in the population along the year; the frequency of physiologically mature swimming crabs and the type of spawn. The condition of development of ovigerous females ovary was associated with the stage of eggs development. This species presents continuous reproduction in Ubatuba region and total spawn, but with successive broods, which suggests a multiple spawn during the reproduction period.

Key words:Portunus spinimanus, reproduction, spawn, Brazilian coast.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. To Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), for the financial support (proc. nº 92/1941-5 and 94/4878-8), to Dr. Carlos Roberto Padovani for his help in statistical analysis and to the colleagues in the NEBECC.

Recebido em 18.VI.1998; aceito em 20.X.1999.

Arul Dhas, M.M; T. Subramonian; S. Varadarajan & P. Govindarjulu. 1980. Germinal zone active and oocyte differentiation in the marine crab Portunus pelagicus. Proc. Indian Nat. Sc. Acad., Part B, 46 (3): 287-292.
Batoy, C.B; J.F. Camargo & B.C. Pilapil. 1987. Breeding season, sexual maturity and fecundity of the blue crab, Portunus pelagicus (L.) in selected coastal waters in Leyte and vicinity, Philippines. Ann. Trop. Res. 9: 157-177.
Camp, D.K.; N.H. Whiting & R.E. Martin. 1977. Nearshore Marine Ecology at Hutchinson Island, Florida: 1971-1974. V. Arthropods. Florida Mar. Res. Publ. (25): 1-63.
Cochran, W.G. & G.M. Cox. 1978. Diseños experimentales. México, Editorial Trillas, 661 p.
Costa, T.M. & M.L. Negreiros-Fransozo. 1998. The reproductive cycle of Callinectes danae Smith, 1869 (Decapoda, Portunidae) in the Ubatuba region, Brazil. Crustaceana 71 (6): 615-627.
Draper, N.R. & H. Smith. 1966. Aplied regression analysis. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 407p.
Dudley, D.L. & M.H. Judy. 1971. Occurrence of larval, juvenile, and mature crabs in the vicinity of Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. NOAA Tec. Rep. 637: 1-10.
Goodman, L.A. 1964. Simultaneous confidence intervals for contrasts among multinomiae populations. Ann. Mathemat. Stat. 35 (2): 716-725.
______. 1965. On simultaneous confidence intervals for multinomiae proportions. Technometrics 7 (2): 247-254.
Haefner Jr., P.A. 1976. Distribution, reproduction and moulting of rock crab, Cancer irroratus Say, 1917, in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Jour. Nat. Hist. 10: 377-397.
Hartnoll, R.G. & T. Gould. 1988. Brachyuran life history strategies and the optimization of egg production. Symp. Zool. Soc. London 59: 1-9.
Knudsen, J.W. 1964. Observations on the reproductive cycles and ecology of the common Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of the Puget South, Washington. Pac. Science 18: 3-33.
Negreiros-Fransozo, M.L.; A. Fransozo; M.A.A. Pinheiro; F.L.M. Mantelatto & S. Santos. 1991. Caracterização física e química da Enseada da Fortaleza, Ubatuba, SP. Revta bras. Geociências 21 (2): 114-120.
Olsen, D.A.; A.E. Dammann & J.A. la Place. 1978. Portunus spinimanus Latreille, a portunid crab with resource potential in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mar. Fishery Rev. 40(7): 12-14.
Pillay, K.K. & N.B. Nair. 1971. The annual reproductive cycles of Uca annulipes, Portunus pelagicus and Metapenaeus affins (Decapoda, Crustacea) from the South-west of coast Indian. Mar. Biol. 11: 152-166.
Ryan, E.P. 1967. Structure and function of the reproductive system of the crab Portunus sanguinolentus (Herbst) (Brachyura, Portunidae). II. Female system. Proc. Symp. Crust. Mar. Biol. Assoc., India, 2: 522-544.
Santos, S.; M.L. Negreiros-Fransozo & A. Fransozo. 1994. The distribution of the swimming crab Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae) in Fortaleza bay, Ubatuba, SP, Brazil. Atlântica 16: 125-141.
______. 1995. Morphometric relationships and maturation in Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae). Rev. Brasil. Biol. 55 (4): 545-553.
Sastry, A.N. 1983. Ecological aspects of reproduction, p. 179-270. In: W.B. Vernberg (Ed.). The Biology of Crustacea: Environment adaptations. New York, Academic Press, Vol. 8, 383p.
Seilple, W. 1979. Distribution, habitat preferences and breeding periods in the crustaceans Sesarma cinerium and S. reticulatum (Brachyura, Decapoda, Grapsidae). Mar. Biol. 52: 77-86.
Sumpton, W. 1990. Biology of the rock crab Charybdis natator (Herbst) (Brachyura, Portunidae). Bull. Mar. Science 46(2): 425-431.

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1999

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[1] Arul Dhas, M.M; T. Subramonian; S. Varadarajan & P. Govindarjulu. 1980. Germinal zone active and oocyte differentiation in the marine crab Portunus pelagicus. Proc. Indian Nat. Sc. Acad., Part B, 46 (3): 287-292.

[2] Batoy, C.B; J.F. Camargo & B.C. Pilapil. 1987. Breeding season, sexual maturity and fecundity of the blue crab, Portunus pelagicus (L.) in selected coastal waters in Leyte and vicinity, Philippines. Ann. Trop. Res. 9: 157-177.

[3] Camp, D.K.; N.H. Whiting & R.E. Martin. 1977. Nearshore Marine Ecology at Hutchinson Island, Florida: 1971-1974. V. Arthropods. Florida Mar. Res. Publ. (25): 1-63.

[4] Cochran, W.G. & G.M. Cox. 1978. Diseños experimentales. México, Editorial Trillas, 661 p.

[5] Costa, T.M. & M.L. Negreiros-Fransozo. 1998. The reproductive cycle of Callinectes danae Smith, 1869 (Decapoda, Portunidae) in the Ubatuba region, Brazil. Crustaceana 71 (6): 615-627.

[6] Draper, N.R. & H. Smith. 1966. Aplied regression analysis. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 407p.

[7] Dudley, D.L. & M.H. Judy. 1971. Occurrence of larval, juvenile, and mature crabs in the vicinity of Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. NOAA Tec. Rep. 637: 1-10.

[8] Goodman, L.A. 1964. Simultaneous confidence intervals for contrasts among multinomiae populations. Ann. Mathemat. Stat. 35 (2): 716-725.

[9] ______. 1965. On simultaneous confidence intervals for multinomiae proportions. Technometrics 7 (2): 247-254.

[10] Haefner Jr., P.A. 1976. Distribution, reproduction and moulting of rock crab, Cancer irroratus Say, 1917, in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Jour. Nat. Hist. 10: 377-397.

[11] Hartnoll, R.G. & T. Gould. 1988. Brachyuran life history strategies and the optimization of egg production. Symp. Zool. Soc. London 59: 1-9.

[12] Knudsen, J.W. 1964. Observations on the reproductive cycles and ecology of the common Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of the Puget South, Washington. Pac. Science 18: 3-33.

[13] Negreiros-Fransozo, M.L.; A. Fransozo; M.A.A. Pinheiro; F.L.M. Mantelatto & S. Santos. 1991. Caracterização física e química da Enseada da Fortaleza, Ubatuba, SP. Revta bras. Geociências 21 (2): 114-120.

[14] Olsen, D.A.; A.E. Dammann & J.A. la Place. 1978. Portunus spinimanus Latreille, a portunid crab with resource potential in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mar. Fishery Rev. 40(7): 12-14.

[15] Pillay, K.K. & N.B. Nair. 1971. The annual reproductive cycles of Uca annulipes, Portunus pelagicus and Metapenaeus affins (Decapoda, Crustacea) from the South-west of coast Indian. Mar. Biol. 11: 152-166.

[16] Ryan, E.P. 1967. Structure and function of the reproductive system of the crab Portunus sanguinolentus (Herbst) (Brachyura, Portunidae). II. Female system. Proc. Symp. Crust. Mar. Biol. Assoc., India, 2: 522-544.

[17] Santos, S.; M.L. Negreiros-Fransozo & A. Fransozo. 1994. The distribution of the swimming crab Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae) in Fortaleza bay, Ubatuba, SP, Brazil. Atlântica 16: 125-141.

[18] ______. 1995. Morphometric relationships and maturation in Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae). Rev. Brasil. Biol. 55 (4): 545-553.

[19] Sastry, A.N. 1983. Ecological aspects of reproduction, p. 179-270. In: W.B. Vernberg (Ed.). The Biology of Crustacea: Environment adaptations. New York, Academic Press, Vol. 8, 383p.

[20] Seilple, W. 1979. Distribution, habitat preferences and breeding periods in the crustaceans Sesarma cinerium and S. reticulatum (Brachyura, Decapoda, Grapsidae). Mar. Biol. 52: 77-86.

[21] Sumpton, W. 1990. Biology of the rock crab Charybdis natator (Herbst) (Brachyura, Portunidae). Bull. Mar. Science 46(2): 425-431.