Notes on three species of crabs and two species of Prawns recorded for the first time from Maharashtra coast

Abstract

Three species of portunid crabs, Portunus {Monomia) gladiator Fabricius, Charybdis (C) granulata Herbst and Portunus (Xiphonectes) hastatoides (Fabricius), and two species of prawns, Metapenaeus hilarula (de Man) and Sicyonia landfera (Olivier), being iirst records of these species from the coast of Maharastra, are briefly described. Except the crab P. (X). hastatoides, which was collected from the Dol catches landed at Versova, all the species were collected from trawl catches landed at Sassoon Docks, Bombay.