International Journal ofAquatic Research and Environmental Studies
International Journal ofShort communication Record of sponge crab, Sphaerodromia kendalli (Alcock and Anderson, 1894) (Brachyura: Dromiidae), Sozhlayuthu kuli, off Thoothukudi coast of Gulf of Mannar, from southeast coast of India (08° 31.912’N 78° 25.327’E)
Thiruvengadam V Devaraj T.A.GMaLay (1993) has reviewed the family: Drommidae De Hann, 1833, a primal brachyuran crabs can arise in tropical and temperate seas of all the most important seacoast. According to Alcock were erected Sphaerodromia Alcock, 1899, and Lasiodromia Alcock, 1901 (a replacement name for Homalodromia Miers, 1884). Borradaile (1900) established Dromidiopsis, and in 1903a, Dromides (later absorbed into Cryptodromia) and cryptodroiopsis, and he redefined Dromidia and Cryptodromia. Most recently, the genus Sphaerodromia Alcock, 1899, has been reviewed by McLay and Crosnier (1991) and McLay (1991).