Fig. 5From: Moult cycle and growth of the crab Halicarcinus planatus (Brachyura, Hymenosomatidae) in the Beagle Channel, southern tip of South AmericaMonthly size frequency distributions of female H. planatus. Modal groups fitted by least squares method (see Table 3, method described by Bas et al. 2005) and adapted from MIX procedure by Macdonald and Pitcher (1979). White and black bars indicate the size ranges of immature and mature females, respectively, placed in months when the pubertal terminal moult occursBack to article page