Integrative Taxonomic Study of the Purse Crab Genus Persephona Leach, 1817 (Brachyura: Leucosiidae): Combining Morphology and Molecular Data
Fig 6
Ontogenetic changes in color patterning of Persephona aquilonaris (A–C) and Persephona mediterranea (D–F), both ranging from old (large) to young (small).
Specimens include P. aquilonaris, ULLZ 1845, male, CW 26.2mm (A), ULLZ 4402, male, CW 15.0mm (B), ULLZ 8513, male, CW 7.9mm; P. mediterranea, MZUSP 33205, male, CW 32.8mm (D), UFMNH 6579, female, CW 19.0mm (E), ULLZ 15385, unsexed juvenile, CW 6.2mm. Image A–C, E, F by D. L. Felder; image D by R. C. Buranelli and L. A. G. Pileggi.