financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,Award Number Me-2683/10-1(to M.S.).
Heterochely denotes the presence of dissimilarly sized chelipeds on opposite sides of the body,a prevalent occurrence in diverse crustaceans.Conversely,heterometry pertains to the quantifiable disparities in size betw...
the Science&Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China(No.2017FY100804);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31572229,41876178);the Senior User Project of R/V Kexue(No.KEXUE2018G25);。
The genus Munidopsis has high biodiversity in seamount habitats.In this study,two new Munidopsis species,Munidopsis ahyongi sp.nov.and Munidopsis carolinensis sp.nov.from the Caroline Ridge in the tropical western Pac...
Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFD0900804);the Project of the S&T Basic Work from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Nos.2014FY110500,2013FY110700);the “Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.QYZDB-SSW-DQC036)
Clibanarius , a genus of hermit crabs, is one of the most diverse genera within Diogenidae. However, studies on the phylogeny within Clibanarius is very limited. We reconstruct the molecular phylogeny of the genus Cli...
The authors thank the technicians of the Centro de Microscopia Eletronica(CME)and the histology laboratory of the Department of Zoology,Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul(UFRGS)who assisted with sample preparation,as well as the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development(CNPq)of Brazil.
Egg incubation on the female abdomen is the parental care behavior observed in aeglids,in which eggs are kept adhered to maternal pleopods and maintained,cleaned and aerated.In A.platensis,egg attachment occurs with t...
provided by the Programa de Mejoramiento del Profesorado(PROMEP)as part of the collaborative project“Red temática de colaboración:Calidad ambiental y desarrollo sustentable;provided to JV-G through the project“Parásitos del chiquilique Emerita rathbunae y su posible repercusión en la salud pública”,financed by the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero,and Fomix Conacyt-Guerrero 2015;The Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología(CONACyT)provided a scholarship(No.247514)to GQ-R.
The species composition and infection levels were determined for helminth parasites in the mole crab, Emerita rathbunae, collected from seven sandy beaches from Guerrero and Michoacán, México. A total of 494 crabs w...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31071889)
Five galatheid squat lobster species belonging to four genera of two galatheid families are reported for the first time from Chinese waters,namely Lauriea simulata Macpherson and Robainas- Barcia,2013,Phylladiorhynchu...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31071889,30499340)
The present paper reports five species of squat lobster, genus Agononida Baba and de Saint Laurent, 1996, of which A. squamosa (Henderson, 1885) and A. cf. variabilis (Baba, 1988) were not previously reported in C...