Notes on the portunid crab Charybdis edwardsi Leene & Buitendijk, 1949, from the Western Indian Ocean

Summary

Tardigrades from the littoral zone were collected. One marine species Batillipes phreaticus Renaud-Debyser was recorded and two species in the immediate supralittoral zone. The external morphology of B. phreaticus is examined with the scanning electron microscope.