from the Pacific Coast of Panama, with Observations of Its Reproductive Biology Arthur Anker1, Juan Antonio Baeza1,2, and Sammy De Grave3,* 1Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, República de Panamá; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Naos Unit 0948, USA. E-mail:[email protected] 2Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, 70...

In this paper, we review the current knowledge about the usage of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins as energy source by marine crustaceans during starvation. Crustaceans are a large and diverse group including some economically important species. The efforts to culture them for human consumption has prompted the interest to understand the preferences of energy sources to be applied for feed fo...

We present evidence that the single representative of the crustacean order Amphionidacea is a decapod shrimp and not a distinct order. After reviewing available morphological evidence, it is concluded that Amphionides is a larval form, but with an as yet unknown parentage. Although the most likely adult form is in the family Pandalidae, the limited molecular data available cannot fully resolve ...

The eggs of three deep-sea pandalid shrimps Heterocarpus abulbus, H. hayashii and H. sibogae are successfully hatched in the laboratory. The first zoeal stage of these shrimps are described, with those of H. abulbus and H. hayashii being reported for the first time. First zoeae of different Heterocarpus species can be distinguished by the spination at the anteroventral carapace, body size, rost...

Thomas Bell proposed 37 species- and 5 genus-group names for the Leucosiidae in four publications that appeared in 1855. The version appearing in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London is the earliest of these publications and the first available description of these taxa.

A second discovery of the echinoid associated shrimp species Diapontonia maranulus Bruce, 1986 is recorded from deep water off Curaçao, Leeward Islands of the Dutch Caribbean. The material is compared with the type description and paratypic material as well as with material of closely related species. A mtDNA COI barcode was obtained from the material. The systematic position of the genus is di...

A new species, Cherax warsamsonicussp. n., endemic to the Warsamson River drainage, in the western part of the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia, is described, figured and compared with its closely related species, Cherax misolicus Holthuis, 1949. The new species may be easily distinguished from C. misolicus by the shape of the rostrum, absence of setae on the rostrum, t...

I. G. Sohn and Louis S. Kornicker. Morphology of Cypretta kawatai Sohn and Kornicker, 1972 (Crustacea, Ostracoda), with a Discussion of the Genus. Smithsonian Contribution to Zoology, number 141, 28 pages, 18 figures, 1973.—All 34 species previously referred to Cypretta are reviewed, and four of these are removed from the genus because they lack the characteristic anterior septate margins. The ...

Aquatic invertebrates are excellent models for the study of animal feeding behavior and at the same time are very important fisheries resources that are frequently harvested using baited fishing gears. Studies on their chemical senses can bring a better understanding to the factors affecting feeding processes in simple organisms, as well as contribute to the development of better baiting techni...

Specimens of Hippa adactyla (Crustacea, Anomura, Hippidae) were collected from several coasts of Indonesia (Sumatera, Java, Bali-Lombok and Sulawesi). This finding represents the first record of this species in Indonesia and confirms its presence in the Indian Ocean and in the Wallacea region. Its systematic and morphological characteristics are described, and its distribution in Indonesia is p...