The Brazilian oil spill, from August 2019 to January 2020, was considered the most extensive accident in tropical oceans. We estimated concentration of droplets that may be available for ingestion by microzooplankton. collection carried out three areas: estuarine plume, bay and reef (Tamandaré, Pernambuco coast). highlight contribution coral larvae region, surpassing copepods, evidencing a spaw...

Two new species of brachyuran crabs belonging to Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Homolidae) and Neopalicus Moosa & Serène, 1981 (Palicidae) respectively are described from Maui, Hawai'i. The new species of Latreillopsis is distinguished from its nine congeners by a granular carapace and pereopods, a triangular G1, and by the distinctive ornamentation of its carapace and third maxillipeds; the ne...

Decapod community inhabiting the rocky littoral of eight bays from Socorro island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, was studied during March 1992. Samples were collected from one-square meter plots placed following transects drawn perpendicularly to the shoreline along the intertidal zone. Species richness and abundance were determined in each bay, as well as the similarity between bays using Morisit...

The tree-climbing mangrove crab Aratus pisonii (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) (Brachyura, Sesarmidae) is considered to have a transisthmian distribution, due to its presence in mangroves of the Western Atlantic as well as the Eastern Pacific. We here present evidence, based on the morphologies of male gonopods and on genetic data, that populations from these two coastlines are morphologically and gen...

Environmental aspects and the decapod fauna of several estuaries and coastal lagoons in the southwestern Atlantic, between 25 and 41°S, are compared: Baia de Paranaguá, Manguezal de Itacorubí, Lagoa dos Patos (Brasil), Laguna Castillos (Uruguay), Río de la Plata (Uruguay-Argentina), Laguna Mar Chiquita and Bahía Blanca (Argentina). The information about natural history of crab species (Crustace...

An annotated species list is provided on the basis of seven sampling surveys of decapod crustaceans carried out on various supra-, medioand infralittoral substrates (sandy bottoms, rocky shores, seagrass beds of Posidonia oceanica) at four locations on the Adriatic Sea: Rovinj (in 1968), Slanik Bay (in 2001) and Pula (in 2004, 2005) on the Istrian Peninsula and the island of Šipan (in 2001, 200...