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SPECIES RECORD

Detailed Record for Birgus latro

Common Name: Coconut crab

Taxonomy: Phylum Arthropoda / Sub Phylum Crustacea / Class Malacostraca / Order Decapoda / Infra Order Anomura / Family Coenobitidae / Genus Birgus

C-value (pg): 5.16

Method: Feulgen Image Analysis Densitometry

Cell Type: Gills

Standard Species: Gallus domesticus = 1.25pg

References:
Hultgren, K. M., N. W. Jeffery, A. Moran, and T. R. Gregory (2018). Latitudinal variation in genome size in crustaceans. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 123: 348-359.

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