Metopaulias is a monotypic genus of fully terrestrial land crabs which do not need to go back to the sea to spawn. Metopaulias depressus is a reddish-brown crab about 2 centimetres (0.79 in) wide which lives in the pools of water that form in the leaves of bromeliads in Jamaica. The female lays about 90 eggs, then tends to her offspring, removing dead leaves that would deoxygenate the water and adding snail shells to the pool to provide high levels of calcium that they require, catching cockroaches and millipedes to feed them, and killing larvae of the damselfly Diceratobasis macrogaster which would otherwise eat them.[2]
Metopaulias is a monotypic genus of fully terrestrial land crabs which do not need to go back to the sea to spawn. Metopaulias depressus is a reddish-brown crab about 2 centimetres (0.79 in) wide which lives in the pools of water that form in the leaves of bromeliads in Jamaica. The female lays about 90 eggs, then tends to her offspring, removing dead leaves that would deoxygenate the water and adding snail shells to the pool to provide high levels of calcium that they require, catching cockroaches and millipedes to feed them, and killing larvae of the damselfly Diceratobasis macrogaster which would otherwise eat them.
Metopaulias est monotypicum genus Sesarmidarum omnino terrestrium, quae ad mare ad ova gignenda redire non debent. Metopaulias depressus est cancer rutilo-fuscus circa 2 centimetra latus, qui in stagnis aquae in foliis bromeliacearum Iamaicae convenientis habitat. Femina circa nonaginta ova parit, tum, progenies curans, folia delapsa quae aquam deoxygenare solent removet, testas gastropodorum in stagnum ad requisitum calcium suppeditandum addit, blattaria et diplopoda ut vescantur capit, et larvas Diceratobasis macrogastri interficit, quae eos aliter comederent.[2]
Metopaulias est monotypicum genus Sesarmidarum omnino terrestrium, quae ad mare ad ova gignenda redire non debent. Metopaulias depressus est cancer rutilo-fuscus circa 2 centimetra latus, qui in stagnis aquae in foliis bromeliacearum Iamaicae convenientis habitat. Femina circa nonaginta ova parit, tum, progenies curans, folia delapsa quae aquam deoxygenare solent removet, testas gastropodorum in stagnum ad requisitum calcium suppeditandum addit, blattaria et diplopoda ut vescantur capit, et larvas Diceratobasis macrogastri interficit, quae eos aliter comederent.
Metopaulias is een geslacht van kreeftachtigen uit de klasse van de Malacostraca (hogere kreeftachtigen).
Metopaulias is een geslacht van kreeftachtigen uit de klasse van de Malacostraca (hogere kreeftachtigen).
