Advances in Decapod Crustacean Research

by Paula, Jose P. M.; Flores, Augusto A. V.; Fransen, Charles H. J. M.

• ISBN13: 9780792369226
• ISBN10: 079236922X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Decapod crustaceans are a particularly important animal group in a variety of aquatic environments, such as freshwater, estuaries, and oceans. Research on this group has increased during recent decades, and relates to their economic and ecological importance. The papers included reflect current trends in decapod crustacean research, and present results on a diversity of specific research fields, grouped into the major themes: a) Systematics, Phylogeny, and Biogeography, b) Growth, Morphology, and Development, c) Ecology and Behaviour, d) Reproduction, and e) Fisheries and Culture. The Colloquia Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea are devoted to decapod crustacean research, and organised on a 3-year basis by institutions of the Mediterranean geographical area. The scope of these meetings has progressively widened throughout the sequence of events, and presently welcomes contributions from crustacean research world-wide.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1. SYSTEMATICS, PHYLOGENY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
Phylogeny of decapods: moving towards a consensus	1	(20)
F.R. Schram
Notes on the position of the true freshwater crabs within the Brachyrhynchan Eubrachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)	21	(20)
R.v. Sternberg
N. Cumberlidge
Molecular phylogeny of the crab genus Brachynotus (Brachyura: Varunidae) based on the 16S rRNA gene	41	(6)
C.D. Schubart
J.A. Cuesta
A. Rodriguez
Austinogebia, a new genus in the Upogebidae and rediagnosis of its close relative, Gebiacantha Ngoc-Ho, 1989 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)	47	(12)
N. Ngoc-Ho
Recent samples of mainly rare decapod Crustacea taken from the deep-sea floor of the southern West Europe Basin	59	(12)
L. Tiefenbacher
Data on the family Pandalidae around the Canary Islands, with first record of Plesionika antigai (Caridea)	71	(6)
J.A. Gonzalez
J.A. Quiles
V.M. Tuset
M.M. Garcia-Diaz
J.I. Santana
Crustacea Decapoda of Paripe River Estuary, Pernambuco, Brazil	77	(4)
M.A. Coelho dos Santos
P.A. Coelho
Intertidal habitats and decapod faunal assemblages (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Socotra Island, Republic of Yemen	81	(18)
N. Simoes
M. Apel
D.A. Jones
The crab species found on the coasts of Gokaeada (Imbroz) Island in the Aegean Sea	99	(6)
H. Balkis
N. Balkis
S. Altmsaracli
Evidence of paraphyly in the neotropical Porcellanid genus Neopisosorna (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae) based on molecular characters	105	(6)
B. Werding
A. Hiller
B. Misof
2. GROWTH, MORPHOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT
Growth in Crustacea - twenty years on	111	(12)
R.G. Hartnoll
Sex-related variability of rostrum morphometry of Aristeus antennatus (Decapoda: Aristeidae) from the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean, Greece)	123	(8)
K. Kapiris
M. Thessalou-Legaki
Influence of diet on sex differentiation of Hippolyte inermis Leach (Decapoda: Natantia) in the field	131	(10)
V. Zupo
Combined effects of temperature and salinity on the larval development of the estuarine mud prawn Upogebia africana (Crustacea, Thalassinidea)	141	(8)
J. Paula
R.N. Mendes
S. Paci
P. McLaughlin
F. Gherardi
W. Emmerson
Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of the American lobster Homarus americanus (Neph-ropidae, Decapoda)	149	(4)
E. Coluccia
A. Cau
R. Cannas
A. Milia
S. Salvadori
A.M. Deiana
3. ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR
Larval abundance and recruitment of Carcinus maenas L. close to its southern geographic limit: a case of match and mismatch	153	(6)
M. Sprung
Choice of prey size and species in Carcinus maenas (L.) feeding on four bivalves of contrasting shell morphology	159	(12)
M. Mascaro
R. Seed
Intertidal distribution and species composition of brachyuran crabs at two rocky shores in central Portugal	171	(8)
A.A.V. Flores
J. Paula
Morphometric comparison between Mediterranean and Atlantic populations of Ponto-philus norvegicus (Decapoda, Crangonidae)	179	(8)
S. De Grave
D. Diaz
Notes on the distribution and biology of the deep-sea crab Bathynectes maravigna (Brachyura: Portunidae) in the Mediterranean Sea	187	(6)
P. Ahello
N. Ungaro
C.-Y. Politou
P. Torres
E. Roman
P. Rinelli
P. Maiorano
G. Norrito
Notes on the biology of Cancer bellianus (Brachyura, Cancridae) around the Canary Islands	193	(8)
J.A. Quiles
V. Rico
V.M. Tuset
J.I. Santana
J.A. Gonzalez
Comparative suitability of binocular observation, burrow counting and excavation for the quantification of the mangrove fiddler crab Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards)	201	(12)
M.W. Skov
R.G. Hartnoll
A comparison of alternative methods for estimating population density of the fiddler crab Uca annulipes at Saco Mangrove, Inhaca Island (Mozambique)	213	(8)
A. Macia
I. Quincardete
J. Paula
Aspects of the population dynamics of Neosarmatium meinerti at Mgazana, a warm temperate mangrove swamp in the East Cape, South Africa, investigated using an indirect method	221	(10)
W.D. Emmerson
Seasonal abundance and recruitment in an estuarine population of mud crabs, Scylla paramamosain, in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam	231	(10)
L. Le Vay
V.N. Ut
D.A. Jones
Major claws make male fiddler crabs more conspicuous to visual predators: a test using human observers	241	(8)
J.M. Jordao
R.F. Oliveira
Feeding activity of Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 and Callinectes danae Smith 1869 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae) in Ubatuba, SP, Brazil	249	(4)
A.L.D. Reigada
M.L. Negreiros-Fransozo
4. REPRODUCTION
A histochemical and ultrastructural study of oogenesis in Aristaeomorpha foliacea (Risso, 1827)	253	(8)
S. Desantis
M. Labate
P. Maiorano
A. Tursi
G.M. Labate
M. Ciccarelli
Prevalence of bacteria in the spermathecae of female snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio (Brachyura: Majidae)	261	(6)
K. Benhalima
M. Moriyasu
5. FISHERIES AND CULTURE
Discards of the Algarve (southern Portugal) crustacean trawl fishery	267	(12)
P. Monteiro
A. Araujo
K. Erzini
M. Castro
Effect of codend mesh size on the performance of the deep-water bottom trawl used in the red shrimp fishery in the Strait of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea)	279	(14)
S. Ragonese
M. Zagra
L. Di Stefano
M.L. Bianchini
Protein requirement of the prawn Marsupenaeus japonicus estimated by a factorial method	293	(8)
S. Teshima
S. Koshio
M. Ishikawa
A. Kanazawa
The effect of fixatives in the quantification of morphological lipofuscin as an age index in crustaceans	301
P. Encarnacao
M. Castro