Species Diversity, Distribution and Community of Crabs along the Coast of Prachuab Kiri Khan Province
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the species diversity and distribution of crabs caught by bottom gill net along coast of Prachuab Kiri Khan which were carried out 6 stations during February-November, 2017. The species richness of crabs were totally 95 species, 55 genera and 22 families. The dominant species were Portunus pelgicus, Dorippoides facchino, Doclea canalifera and Podophthalmus vigil. The rare species had the maximum numbers of species at 79.80% of total number of species. The species diversity and distribution of crabs were spatial and seasonal variation. The highest species richness at 65 species were belonged to Bankood station. While in August and November had high species richness at 69 and 65 species. The important factors had affected on species diversity of crabs were supposed to be the different habitat on sea substratum and wave which also affected on the community structure of crabs. Koakralok had the highest Shannon’s diversity index and Peilou's evenness index at 2.789 and 0.742 while Bankood had the highest species richness index at 9.582. The crab community were divided into 4 groups; Kaotakeab, Koakralok, Huayyang and the most similar groups were Nongprom, Bankood and Bangsaphannoi. The amount of discarded species caught by bottom gill net in this area were quite high at 52.22-73.41 % of total catch and the discard ratio at 2.27-2.76. The major discarded species were wasted crabs which had high numbers of species about 82.65 % of total numbers of species. The knowledges from this study were important criteria for management and conservation of crabs and for further development for effective and sustainable utilization of crab biodiversity.
Key Words: crab, Prachuab Kiri Khan, crab community, wasted crabs, bottom gill net
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