Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America pp 209–228Cite as

Decapod Crustaceans

  • Chapter

Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae ((MOBI,volume 86))

We report the presence of a total of 549 decapod species for Costa Rican marine and coastal waters, including eight species not mentioned previously for Costa Rica. Species number was substantially higher for the Pacific (438 spp.) compared to the Caribbean coast (119 spp). Brachyura (253 spp.), Anomura (116 spp.), and Caridea (114 spp.) comprised the highest number of species. Pacific Costa Rica supports 55% and 52% of Decapoda and Brachyura, respectively, known to occur in the Panamic Province. Species diversity in the Caribbean is more difficult to compare due to the lack of adequate and updated information.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   189.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   249.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Abele LG (1992) A review of the grapsid crab genus Sesarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae) in America, with description of a new genus. Smithson Contr Zool 527:1–59

    Google Scholar 

  2. 1b. Abele LG, Kim W (1984) Notes on the freshwater shrimps of Isla del Coco with the description of Macrobrachium cocoense, new species. Proc Biol Soc Wash 97:951–960

    Google Scholar 

  3. Abele LG, Kim W (1986) An illustrated guide to the marine decapod crustaceans of Florida. Dept Environ Reg Tech Series, Florida 8:1–326

    Google Scholar 

  4. Abele LG, Kim W (1989) The decapod crustaceans of the Panama Canal. Smithson Contr Zool 482:1–50

    Google Scholar 

  5. Anger K (2001) The Biology of Decapod Crustacean Larvae. In: Vonk R (ed) Crustacean Issues 14. A.A. Balkema, Lisse, The Netherlands, 419 p

    Google Scholar 

  6. 3b. Baba K 2005. Deep-sea chirostylid and galatheid crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) from the Indo-Pacific, with a list of species. Galathea Rep. 20: 1–317.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Ball EE (1972) Observation on the biology of the hermit crab, Coenobita compressus H. Milne Edwards (Decapoda, Anomura) on the west coast of the Americas. Rev Biol Trop 20:265–273

    Google Scholar 

  8. Ball EE, Haig J (1974) Hermit crabs from the tropical eastern Pacific. I. Distribution, color and natural history of some common shallow-water species. Bull South Calif Acad Sci 73:95–104

    Google Scholar 

  9. Benedict JE (1902) Description of a new genus and forty-six new species of crustaceans of the family Galatheidae, with a list of the known marine species. Proc US Nat Mus 26:243–334

    Google Scholar 

  10. Biffar TA (1972) A study of the eastern Pacific representatives of the genus Callianassa (Crustacea, Decapoda, Callianassidae). Ph.D. dissertation, University of Miami, Florida, 281 p

    Google Scholar 

  11. Boone L (1926) A new family of Crustacea. Preliminary technical description. Zool Soc Bull 29:73

    Google Scholar 

  12. Boone L (1930) Scientific results of the cruises of the yachts “Eagle” and “Ara”, 1921–1928, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Crustacea: Anomura, Macrura, Schizopoda, Isopoda, Amphipoda, Mysidacea, Cirripedia and Copepoda. Bull Vanderbilt Mar Mus 3:1–221

    Google Scholar 

  13. Boone L (1932) The littoral crustacean fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Part II. Anomura. Zoologica 14:1–62

    Google Scholar 

  14. Boschi EE (2000) Biodiversity of marine decapod brachyurans of the Americas. J Crust Biol 20:337–342

    Google Scholar 

  15. Boyko CB (2002) A worldwide revision of recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippoidea). Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 272:1–396

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. Bright DB (1966) Land crabs of Costa Rica. Rev Biol Trop 14:183–203

    Google Scholar 

  17. Bright DB, Hogue CL (1972) A synopsis of the burrowing land crabs of the world and list of their arthropod symbionts and burrow associates. Contrib Sci 220:1–58

    Google Scholar 

  18. Cabrera PJ, Y Solano L (1996) Tamaños y frecuencias de Pontonia margarita (Crustacea: Palaemonidae) asociadas a Pinctada mazatlanica (Bivalvia: Pteridae), Costa Rica. Rev Biol Trop 44:915–917

    Google Scholar 

  19. Caddy JF (1989) Marine Invertebrate Fisheries, Their Assessment & Management. Wiley, New York, 752 p

    Google Scholar 

  20. Campos E (1993) Systematics and taxonomic remarks on Pinnotheres muliniarum Rathbun, 1918 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 106:92–101

    Google Scholar 

  21. Campos E, Griffith H (1990) Clypeasterophilus, a new genus to receive the small-palped species of the Dissodactylus complex (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). J Crust Biol 10:550–553

    Article  Google Scholar 

  22. Campos N, Lemaitre R (1994) A new Calcinus (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from the tropical western Atlantic and a comparison with other species of the genus from the region. Proc Biol Soc Wash 107:137–150

    Google Scholar 

  23. Campos E, Wicksten MK (1997) A new genus for the Central American crab Pinnixa costaricana Wicksten, 1982 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 110:69–73

    Google Scholar 

  24. Campos E, Díaz V, Gamboa-Contreras JA (1998) Notes on distribution and taxonomy of five poorly known species of pinnotherid crabs from the eastern Pacific (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 111:372–381

    Google Scholar 

  25. Castaing A, Jiménez JM, Rojas J (1982) Asociación simbiótica entre el cangrejo Pinnotheres sp. indt. (Crustacea, Pinnotheridae) y el molusco Geloina inflata (Phillipi) (Pelecypoda, Corbiculidae), en Costa Rica. Brenesia 19/20:553–562

    Google Scholar 

  26. Castro P (1996) Eastern Pacific species of Trapezia (Crustacea, Brachyura: Trapeziidae), sibling species symbiotic with reef corals. Bull Mar Sci 58:531–554

    Google Scholar 

  27. Cervigon F, Cipriani R, Fisher W, Garibaldi L, Hendrickx M, Lemus AJ, Márquez R, Poutiers JM, Robaina G, Rodríguez B (1993) FAO Species Identification Sheets for Fishery Purposes. Field Guide to the Commercial Marine and Brackish Waters Resources of the Northern Coast of South America. FAO, Rome, 513 p

    Google Scholar 

  28. Chace FA (1942) Reports on the scientific results of the Atlantis Expedition to the West Indies, under the joint auspices of the University of Havana and Harvard University. Torreia 11:1–105

    Google Scholar 

  29. Chace FA (1962) The non-brachyuran decapod crustaceans of Clipperton Island. Proc US Nat Mus 113:605–635

    Google Scholar 

  30. Chace FA (1972) The shrimps of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions with a summary of the West Indian shallow-water species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia). Smithson Contr Zool 98:1–179

    Google Scholar 

  31. Chace FA (1984) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatros Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part. 2: Families Glyphocrangonidae and Crangonidae. Smithson Contr Zool 397:1–63

    Google Scholar 

  32. 26b. Chace FA Jr, HH Hobbs Jr (1969) The freshwater and terrestrial decapod crustaceans of the West Indies with special reference to Dominica. US Natl Mus Bull 292:1–258

    Google Scholar 

  33. Christoffersen ML (1979) Decapod Crustacea: Alpheoidea. Résultats Scientifiques des Campagnes de la “Calypso” Fascicule II. Annales Ser 55:297–377

    Google Scholar 

  34. Cortés J (1985) Preliminary observations of Alpheus simus Guérin-Méneville, 1856 (Crustacea: Alpheidae): a little-known Caribbean bioeroder. Proc 5th Int Coral Reef Congr, Tahiti 5:351–353

    Google Scholar 

  35. Cortés J (1991) Los arrecifes coralinos del Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica: aspectos geológicos. Rev Geol Amér Central 3:15–24

    Google Scholar 

  36. Crane J (1947) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society XXXVIII. Intertidal brachygnathous crabs from the west coast of tropical America with special reference to ecology. Zoologica 32:69–95

    Google Scholar 

  37. Crane J (1975) Fiddler Crabs of the World. Ocypodidae: genus Uca. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 738 p

    Google Scholar 

  38. De Vries MC, Epifanio CE, Dittel AI (1983) Lunar rhythms in egg hatching of the subtidal crustacean: Callinectes arcuatus Ordway (Decapoda: Brachyura). Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 17:717–724

    Article  Google Scholar 

  39. Dexter DM (1974) Sandy-beach fauna of the Pacific and Atlantic coast of Costa Rica and Colombia. Rev Biol Trop 22:51–66

    Google Scholar 

  40. Effort IE (1971) The species of sand crabs in the genus Lepidopa (Decapoda: Albuneidae). Zool Anz Leipzig 186:59–102

    Google Scholar 

  41. Efford IE (1973) The distribution of the sand crabs, Hippa strigillata (Stimpson) and Hippa pacifica (Dana) in the eastern Pacific Ocean (Decapoda: Anomura). Crustaceana 23:119–122

    Article  Google Scholar 

  42. Efford IE (1976) Distribution of the sand crabs in the genus Emerita (Decapoda: Hippidae). Crustaceana 30:169–183

    Article  Google Scholar 

  43. Epifanio CE, Dittel AI (1984) Seasonal abundance of brachyuran crab larvae in a tropical estuary: Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, Central America. Estuaries 7(4B):501–505

    Article  Google Scholar 

  44. Faxon W (1893) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea. Bull Mus Comp Zool 24:149–220

    Google Scholar 

  45. Faxon W (1895) Reports on an exploration off the west coast of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer “Albatros”, during 1891. XV. The stalk-eyed Crustacea. Mem Mus Comp Zool 18:1–292

    Google Scholar 

  46. Fischer R (1981) Bioerosion of basalt of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Senckenberg Marit 13:1–41

    Google Scholar 

  47. Fonseca E, AC, J Cortés (1998) Coral borers of the eastern Pacific: the sipunculan Aspidosiphon (A.) elegans and the crustacean Pomatogebia rugosa. Pac Sci 52:170–175

    Google Scholar 

  48. Fransen CHJM (2002) Taxonomy, phylogeny, historical biogeography, and historical ecology of the genus Pontonia Latreille (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae). Zool Verhandl Leiden 336:1–257

    Google Scholar 

  49. Fujino T (1972) A new pontoniinid shrimp, Pontonia spighti sp. new, associated with a newly described ascidian from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica (Decapoda, Natantia, Pontoniinae). Publ Seto Mar Biol Lab 19:293–301

    Google Scholar 

  50. García-Gómez J (1983) Revision of Iridopagurus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Paguridae) with the description of new species from American waters. Bull Mar Sci 33:10–54

    Google Scholar 

  51. Garth JS (1958) Brachyura of the Pacific coast of America. Oxyrhyncha. Allan Hancock Pac Exped 854 p

    Google Scholar 

  52. Garth JS (1959) Eastern Pacific Expedition of the New York Zoological Society. XLIV. Non-intertidal brachygnathous crabs from the west coast of tropical America Part 1: Brachygnatha Oxyrhyncha. Zoologica 44:105–124

    Google Scholar 

  53. Garth JS (1961) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XLV. Non-intertidal brachygnathous crabs from the west coast of tropical America. Part 2: Brachygnatha Brachyrhyncha. Zoologica 46:133–159

    Google Scholar 

  54. Garth JS (1966) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XLVI. Oxystomatus and allied crabs from the west coast of tropical America. Zoologica 51:1–14

    Google Scholar 

  55. Garth JS (1968) Globopilumnus xantusii (Stimpson), n. comb., a stridulating crab from the west coast of tropical America, with remarks on discontinuous distribution of some west American and west African genera of brachyrhynchous crabs. Crustaceana 15:312–318

    Article  Google Scholar 

  56. Garth JS (1973) New taxa of brachyuran crabs from deep water off western Peru and Costa Rica. Bull South Calif Acad Sci 72:1–12

    Google Scholar 

  57. Garth JS (1974) On the occurrence in the Eastern Tropical Pacific of Indo-West Pacific decapod crustaceans commensal with reef-building corals. Proc 2nd Int Coral Reef Symp, Brisbane 1:397–404

    Google Scholar 

  58. Garth JS (1991) Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of Galápagos Brachyura. In: James MJ (ed.) Galápagos Marine Invertebrates. Plenum, New York, pp 123–145

    Google Scholar 

  59. Garth JS, Stephenson W (1966) Brachyura of the coast of America. Brachyrhyncha; Portunidae. Allan Hancock Monogr Mar Biol 1:1–154

    Google Scholar 

  60. Gordon I (1938) A comparison of the two genera Albunea and Lepidopa (Crustacea, Anomura), with description of a new species from Singapore. Bull Raffles Mus 14:186–197

    Google Scholar 

  61. Gore RH (1970) Pachycheles cristobalensis, sp. nov. with notes on the porcellanid crabs of the southern Caribbean. Bull Mar Sci 20:957–970

    Google Scholar 

  62. Gore RH (1974) On a small collection of porcellanid crabs from the Caribbean Sea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura). Bull Mar Sci 24:700–721

    Google Scholar 

  63. Gore RH (1982) Porcellanid crabs from the coasts of México and Central America (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura). Smithson Contr Zool 363:1–34

    Google Scholar 

  64. Gore RH, Abele LG (1973) Three new species of porcellanid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Porcellanidae) from the Bay of Panama and adjacent Caribbean waters. Bull Mar Sci 23:569–573

    Google Scholar 

  65. Gore RH, Abele LG (1976) Shallow water porcelain crabs from the Pacific coast of Panama and adjacent Caribbean waters (Crustacea, Anomura, Porcellanidae). Smithson Contr Zool 237:1–30

    Google Scholar 

  66. Green TM (1985) Pinnotheres jamesi synonymized with P. reticulates (Decapoda: Brachyura). Proc Biol Soc Wash 98:611–614

    Google Scholar 

  67. Griffith H (1987) Taxonomy of the genus Dissodactylus (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) with description of three new species. Bull Mar Sci 40:397–422

    Google Scholar 

  68. Gruner H-E (1993) Wirbellose Tiere. 4. Teil. Arthropoda (ohne Insecta). Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena, 1 279 p

    Google Scholar 

  69. Guinot D (1967) Recheches préliminaires sur les groupements naturels chez les Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures. II. Les anciens genres Micropanope Stimpson et Medaeus Dana. Bull Mus Nat Hist Nat 39:345–374

    Google Scholar 

  70. Guinot D (1969) Recherches préliminaires sur les groupements naturels chez les Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures. VII. Les Goneplacidae. Bull Mus Nat Hist Nat 41:241–265

    Google Scholar 

  71. Guinot D (1971) Rechercher préliminaires sur les groupementes naturels chez les Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures. VIII. Synthese et bibliographie. Bull Mus Nat Hist Nat 42:1063–1090

    Google Scholar 

  72. Haig J (1956) The Galatheidae (Crustacea: Anomura) of the Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition with review of the Porcellanidae of the Western North Atlantic. Rep Allan Hancock Atlant Exped 8:1–148

    Google Scholar 

  73. Haig J (1957) Four new porcellain crabs from the eastern Pacific. Bull South Calif Acad Sci 56:31–41

    Google Scholar 

  74. Haig J (1960) The Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Anomura) of the eastern Pacific. Allan Hancock Pac Exped 24:1–440

    Google Scholar 

  75. Haig J (1962) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific expedition 1914–1916. LXXIX. Porcellanid crabs from eastern and western America. Vidensk Meddel Dansk Naturhist Foren Kjobenhavn 124:171–192

    Google Scholar 

  76. Haig J (1968) Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. Porcellanid crabs (Crustacea: Anomura) from the west coast of tropical America. Zoologia 53:57–74

    Google Scholar 

  77. Haig J (1974) Observations on the lithodid crabs of Peru, with description of two new species. Bull South Calif Acad Sci 73:152–164

    Google Scholar 

  78. Haig J (1980) Arthropoda: Crustacea, Superfamily Hippoidea: Families Hippidae and Albuneidae (mole and sand crabs). In: Brusca RC (ed.) Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of California. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp 286–291

    Google Scholar 

  79. Haig J, Harvey AW (1991) Three new species of the Pagurus lepidus complex (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae) from the eastern Pacific. Contr Sci, Nat Hist Mus Los Angeles County 430:1–11

    Google Scholar 

  80. Haig J, Provenzano AJ (1965) A new genus and two new species of diogenid hermit crabs (Decapoda, Anomura). Crustaceana 9:199–207

    Article  Google Scholar 

  81. Haig J, Hopkins TS, Scandand TB (1970) The shallow water anomuran crab fauna of southwestern Baja California, Mexico. Trans San Diego Soc Nat Hist 16:14–31

    Google Scholar 

  82. Harvey AW (1998) Rediscovery and range extension of the Galápagos “endemic” Pachycheles velerae (Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae). J Crust Biol 18:746–752

    Article  Google Scholar 

  83. Harvey AW, McLaughlin P (1991) Two new hermit crabs of the genus Pagurus (provenzanoi group) (Crustacea, Anomura, Paguridae) from the eastern Pacific, with notes on their ecology. Contr Sci, Nat Hist Mus Los Angeles County 425:13–21

    Google Scholar 

  84. Hendrickx ME (1984) The species of Sicyonia H. Milne Edwards (Crustacea: Penaeoidea) of the Gulf of California, Mexico, with a key for their identification and a note on their zoogeography. Rev Biol Trop 32:279–298

    Google Scholar 

  85. Hendrickx ME (1989) Notes on the genus Ethusa Roux, 1828, and description of Ethusa steyaerti n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Dorippidae), from the continental shelf of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Bull Mus Nat Hist Nat, Paris 11 (sec A, #2):407–423

    Google Scholar 

  86. Hendrickx ME (1995a) Camarones. In: Fischer W, Krupp F, Schneider W, Sommer C, Carpenter KE, Niem UH (eds.) Guía FAO para la identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacífico Centro-oriental. Vol. 1. Plantas e Invertebrados. FAO, Rome, pp 417–537

    Google Scholar 

  87. Hendrickx ME (1995b) Checklist of lobster-like decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea, Astacidea and Palinura) from the eastern tropical Pacific. Anales Inst Biol Univ Nac Autón México, Ser Zool 66:151–163

    Google Scholar 

  88. Hendrickx ME (1995c) Anomuros. In: Fischer W, Krupp F, Schneider W, Sommer C, Carpenter KE, Niem UH (eds.) Guía FAO para la identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacífico Centro-oriental. Vol. 1. Plantas e Invertebrados. FAO, Rome, pp 539–564

    Google Scholar 

  89. 79b. Hendrickx ME (1995d) Checklist of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the eastern tropical Pacific. Bull Inst Roy Sci Nat Belgique 65:125–150

    Google Scholar 

  90. 79c. Hendrickx ME (1996) Los camarones Penaeoidea bentónicos (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobrachiata) del Pacífico mexicano. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad e Inst. Cienc. Mar Limnol., UNAM, México, 147 p

    Google Scholar 

  91. Hendrickx M (1997) Los cangrejos braquiuros del Pacífico mexicano (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae hasta Leucosiidae). Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad e Inst. Cienc. Mar Limnol., UNAM, México, 178p

    Google Scholar 

  92. Hendrickx ME (1999) Los cangrejos braquiuros del Pacifico mexicano (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea y Parthenopoidea). Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad e Inst. Cienc. Mar Limnol., UNAM, México, 274 p

    Google Scholar 

  93. Hendrickx ME (2003) The temperate species of genus Munida Leach (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) in the east Pacific, with the description of a new species and additional records for tropical-subtropical species. Bull Inst Roy Nat Belgique 73:117–138

    Google Scholar 

  94. Hendrickx ME, Estrada Navarrete FD (1996) Los camarones pelágicos del Pacífico mexicano (Crustacea: Dendrobranchiata y Caridea). Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad e Inst. Cienc. Mar Limnol., UNAM, México, 157 p

    Google Scholar 

  95. Hendrickx ME, Harvey AW (1999) Checklist of anomuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the eastern tropical Pacific. Belg J Zool 129:363–389

    Google Scholar 

  96. Hendrickx ME, Wicksten MK (1989) Los Pandalidae (Crustacea: Caridea) del Pacífico mexicano, con una clave para su identificación. Caldasia (Colombia) 16:71–86

    Google Scholar 

  97. Hertlein LG (1963) Contribution to the biogeography of Cocos Island, including a bibliography. Proc Calif Acad Sci 32:219–289

    Google Scholar 

  98. Hogue CL, Miller SE (1981) Entomofauna of Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Atoll Res Bull 250:1–29

    Google Scholar 

  99. Holthuis LB (1951) A general revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia) of the Americas. I. The subfamilies Euryrhynchinae and Pontoniinae. Occ Pap Allan Hancock Found 11:1–332

    Google Scholar 

  100. Holthuis LB (1952) A general revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia) of the Americas, Part. II. The subfamily Palaemoninae. Occ Pap Allan Hancock Found 12:1–396

    Google Scholar 

  101. Holthuis LB (1980a) FAO species catalogue. Vol. 1. Shrimps and prawns of the world. An annotated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish Synop 125(1):1–261

    Google Scholar 

  102. Holthuis LB (1980b) Alpheus saxidomus new species, a rock boring snapping shrimp from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, with notes on Alpheus simus Guérin-Méneville, 1856. Zool Medel 55:47–58

    Google Scholar 

  103. Holthuis LB (1991) FAO species catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fish Synop 125(13):1–292

    Google Scholar 

  104. Jesse S (1996) Demersal crustacean assemblages along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. A quantitative and multivariate assessment based on the Victor Hensen Costa Rica expedition (1993/1994). Rev Biol Trop 44(Suppl 3):115–134

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  105. Kim W, Abele LG (1988) The snapping shrimp genus Alpheus from the Eastern Pacific (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). Smithson Contr Zool 454:1–119

    Google Scholar 

  106. Kitani H (1997) Postlarval morphology of the western white shrimp Penaeus occidentales (Crustacea: Penaeidae). Rev Biol Trop 44:627–630

    Google Scholar 

  107. Kropp RK (1989) A revision of the Pacific species of gall crabs, genus Opecarcinus (Crustacea; Cryptochiridae). Bull Mar Sci 45:98–129

    Google Scholar 

  108. Kropp RK (1990) Revision of the genera of gall crabs (Crustacea: Cryptochiridae) occurring in the Pacific Ocean. Pac Sci 44:417–448

    Google Scholar 

  109. Lemaitre R (1981) Shallow-water crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) collected in the southern Caribbean near Cartagena, Colombia. Bull Mar Sci 31:234–266

    Google Scholar 

  110. Lemaitre R (1989) Revision of the genus Parapagurus (Anomura: Paguroidea: Parapaguridae), including redescription of the western Atlantic species. Zool Verhandl 253:1–106

    Google Scholar 

  111. Lemaitre R (1995) A review of the hermit crabs of the genus Xylopagurus A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae), including description of two new species. Smithson Contr Zool 570:1–27

    Google Scholar 

  112. Lemaitre R, Alvarez-León R (1992) Crustáceos decápodos del Pacífico Colombiano: lista de especies y consideraciones zoogeográficas. An Inst Mar Punta Betín 21:33–76

    Google Scholar 

  113. Lemaitre R, McLaughlin PA (1996) Revision of Pylopagurus and Tomopagurus (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae), with the description of new genera and species. Part V. Anisopagurus McLaughlin, Manucomplanus McLaughlin and Protoniopagurus new genus. Bull Mar Sci 59:89–141

    Google Scholar 

  114. Lemaitre R, Ramos GE (1992) A collection of Thalassinidea (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Pacific coast of Colombia, with description of a new species and a checklist of eastern Pacific species. Proc Biol Soc Wash 105:343–358

    Google Scholar 

  115. MacPherson E (1988) Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) in the Atlantic Ocean. Monogr Zool Mar (Inst Cienc Mar, Barcelona) 2:9–153

    Google Scholar 

  116. Manning RB, Felder DL (1991) Revision of the American Callianassidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Proc Biol Soc Wash 104:764–792

    Google Scholar 

  117. 101b. Markham JC, Donath-Hernández F, Villalobos Hiriart JL, Díaz Barriga AC (1990) Notes on the shallow water marine Crustacea of the Caribbean coast of Quintana-Roo, México. An Inst Biol Univ Nac Autón México, Ser Zool 61:405–446

    Google Scholar 

  118. Martin JW, Davis GE (2001) An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Sci Ser, Nat Hist Mus Los Angeles County 39:1–124

    Google Scholar 

  119. Maurer D, Epifanio CE, Dean HK, Howe S, A Vargas J, Dittel AI, Murillo MM (1984) Benthic invertebrates of a tropical estuary: Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica. J Nat Hist 18:47–61

    Article  Google Scholar 

  120. McLaughlin PA (1980) Comparative Morphology of Recent Crustacea. W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, 177 p

    Google Scholar 

  121. McLaughlin PA (1981a) Revision of Pylopagurus and Tomopagurus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae), with the descriptions of new genera and species: Part I. Ten new genera of the Parapaguridae and a redescription of Tomopagurus A. Milne Edwards and Bouvier. Bull Mar Sci 31:1–30

    Google Scholar 

  122. McLaughlin PA (1981b) Revision of Pylopagurus and Tomopagurus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae), with the descriptions of new genera and species: Part II. Rhodochirus McLaughlin and Phimochirus McLaughlin. Bull Mar Sci 31:329–365

    Google Scholar 

  123. McLaughlin PA (1982) Revision of Pylopagurus and Tomopagurus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae), with the descriptions of new genera and species: Part III. Agaricochirus McLaughlin, and Enallopaguropsis McLaughlin. Bull Mar Sci 32:823–856

    Google Scholar 

  124. Méndez M (1981) Claves de identificación y distribución de los langostinos y camarones (Crustacea: Decapoda) del mar y los ríos de la costa del Perú. Bol Inst Mar Perú-Callao 5:1–170

    Google Scholar 

  125. Moran DA (1984) Additions to the known anomuran fauna of El Salvador, Central America (Crustacea: Decapoda). J Crust Biol 4:72–84

    Article  Google Scholar 

  126. Moran DA, Dittel AI (1993) Anomuran and brachyuran crabs of Costa Rica: annotated list of species. Rev Biol Trop 41:599–617

    Google Scholar 

  127. Omori M (1975) The systematics, biogeography, and fishery of epipelagic shrimps of the genus Acetes (Crustacea, Decapoda, Sergestidae). Bull Ocean Res Inst Univ Tokyo 7:1–91

    Google Scholar 

  128. Pequegnat WE, Pequegnat LH (1973) Munidopsis albatrossae, a new species of deep-sea (Galatheidae, Decapoda, Anomura) from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Crustaceana 24:163–168

    Article  Google Scholar 

  129. Pérez-Farfante I (1969) Western Atlantic shrimps of the genus Penaeus. Fish Bull 67:461–591

    Google Scholar 

  130. 111b. Pérez-Farfante, I (1977) American solenocerid shrimps of genera Hymenopenaeus, Haliporoides, Pleoticus, Hadropenaeus new genus, and Mesopenaeus new genus. Fish Bull 75:261–346

    Google Scholar 

  131. Pérez-Farfante I (1971) Western Atlantic shrimps of the genus Metapenaeopsis (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae) with descriptions of three new species. Smithson Contr Zool 79:1–37

    Google Scholar 

  132. Pérez-Farfante I, Kensley B (1997) Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Mém Mus Natn Hist Nat, Paris 175:1–233

    Google Scholar 

  133. Pesta O (1931) Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Biologischen Costa Rica Expedition 1930. I. Teil. Crustacea Decapoda aus Costa Rica. Ann Naturhist Mus Wien 45:173–181

    Google Scholar 

  134. Powers LW (1977) A catalogue and bibliography to the crabs (Brachyura) of the Gulf of Mexico. Contr Mar Sci (Suppl) 20:1–190

    Google Scholar 

  135. Rabalais NN, Gore RH (1985) Abbreviated development in decapods. In: Wenner A, Schram FR (eds.) Larval Growth. Crustacean Issues 2. A.A. Balkema, Lisse, The Netherlands, pp 67–126

    Google Scholar 

  136. Rathbun MJ (1918) The grapsoid crabs of America. Bull US Nat Mus 97:1–461

    Google Scholar 

  137. Rathbun MJ (1925) The spider crabs of America. Bull US Nat Mus 129:1–613

    Google Scholar 

  138. Rathbun MJ (1930) The Cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae and Xanthidae. Bull US Nat Mus 152:1–593

    Google Scholar 

  139. Rathbun MJ (1931) A new species of pinnotherid crab from Costa Rica. J Wash Acad Sci 21:262–263

    Google Scholar 

  140. Rathbun MJ (1937) The Oxystomatous and allied crabs of America. Bull US Nat Mus 166:1–272

    Google Scholar 

  141. Reaka ML, Manning RB (1980) The distributional ecology and zoogeographical relationships of stomatopod Crustacea from Pacific Costa Rica. Smithson Contr Mar Sci 7:1–29

    Google Scholar 

  142. Ríos R (1986) Caridean shrimps of the Gulf of California. V. New records of species belonging to the subfamily Pontomiinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 99:429–434

    Google Scholar 

  143. Rodríguez B (1993) Shrimps. In: Cervigon F, Cipriani R, Fischer W, Caribaldi L, Hendrickx M, Lemus AJ, Márquez R, Poutiers JM, Robaina G, Rodríguez B (eds.) FAO Species Identification Sheets for Fishery Purposes. Field Guide to the Commercial Marine and Brackish-Waters Resources of the Northern Coast of South America. FAO, Rome, pp 107–131

    Google Scholar 

  144. Snyder-Conn E (1980) Arthropoda: Crustacea, Paguroidea and Coenobitoidea. In: Brusca R (ed.). Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of California. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp 275–285

    Google Scholar 

  145. Tabash FA (1995) An assessment of pink shrimp (Penaeus brasiliensis) populations, in three areas of the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Rev Biol Trop 43:239–250

    Google Scholar 

  146. 124b. Thoma B, Heard R, Vargas R (2005) A new species of Parapinnixa (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) from Isla del Coco, Costa Rica. Proc Biol Soc Wash 118:543–550

    Article  Google Scholar 

  147. Türkay M (1970) Die Gecarcinidae Amerikas. Mit einem Anhang über Ucides Rathbun (Crustacea; Decapoda). Senckenberg Biol 51:333–354

    Google Scholar 

  148. Umaña R, Chacón D (1994) Asentamiento en estadíos postlarvales de la langosta Panulirus argus (Decapoda: Palinuridae), en Limón, Costa Rica. Rev Biol Trop 42:585–594

    Google Scholar 

  149. Vargas JA, Wolff M (1996) Pacific coastal ecosystems of Costa Rica with emphasis on the Golfo Dulce and adjacent areas: a synoptic view based on the RV Victor Hensen expedition 1993/1994 and previous studies. Rev Biol Trop 44(Suppl 3):1–238

    Google Scholar 

  150. Vargas JA, Dean HK, Maurer D, Orellana P (1985) Lista preliminar de invertebrados aso-ciados a los sedimentos del Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica. Brenesia 24:327–342

    Google Scholar 

  151. Vargas R (2000) Periclimenes murcielagensis, a new species of shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) living on black coral from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Proc Biol Soc Wash 113:17–23

    Google Scholar 

  152. Vargas R, Cortés J (1999a) Biodiversidad marina de Costa Rica: Crustacea: Decapoda (Penaeoidea, Sergestoidea, Stenopodidea, Caridea, Thalassinidea, Palinura) del Caribe. Rev Biol Trop 47:877–885

    Google Scholar 

  153. Vargas R, Cortés J (1999b) Biodiversidad marina de Costa Rica: Crustacea: Decapoda (Penaeoidea, Sergestoidea, Caridea, Astacidea, Thalassinidea, Palinura) del Pacífico. Rev Biol Trop 47:887–911

    Google Scholar 

  154. Vargas R, Cortés J (2006) Biodiversidad Marina de Costa Rica: Crustacea: Infraorden Anomura. Rev Biol Trop 54:461–488

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  155. Vargas R, Jesse S, Castro M (1996) Checklist of crustaceans (Decapoda and Stomatopoda), collected during the Victor Hensen Costa Rica expedition (1993/1994). Rev Biol Trop 44(Suppl 3):97–102

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  156. 132b. Voss GL (1971) Narrative of R/V John Elliott Pillsbury cruise P-7101 to Central America, 20 January–February 1971. School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Florida, 31 p

    Google Scholar 

  157. Wehrtmann IS (1990) Distribution and reproduction of Ambidexter panamense and Palaemonetes schmitti in Pacific Costa Rica (Crustacea, Decapoda). Rev Biol Trop 38:327–329

    Google Scholar 

  158. Wehrtmann IS, Vargas R (2003) New records and range extensions of shrimps (Decapoda: Penaeoidea, Caridea) from the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Costa Rica, Central America. Rev Biol Trop 51:268–274

    Google Scholar 

  159. Werding B (1977) Los porcelánidos (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae) de la región de Santa Marta, Colombia. An Inst Inv Mar Punta Betín 9:173–214

    Google Scholar 

  160. Werding B (1984) Porcelánidos (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae) de la isla de Providencia, Colombia. An Inst Inv Mar Punta Betín 14:3–16

    Google Scholar 

  161. Werding B (1990) Beobachtungen an Alpheus schmitti Chace und Thunor simus (Guérin-Méneville), zwei gesteinsbohrende Pistolenkrebsen aus dem Karibischen Meer (Crustacea: Alpheidae). Zool Anz 244:87–98

    Google Scholar 

  162. Werding B, Haig J (1982) The porcellanids crabs of Isla Gorgona, Pacific coast of Colombia, with a description of Clastotoechus gorgonensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Anomura). An Inst Inv Mar Punta Betín 9:173–214

    Google Scholar 

  163. Wicksten MK (1979) New records of the species of Glyphocrangon in the northeastern Pacific Ocean (Caridea: Glyphocrangonidae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 92:217–224

    Google Scholar 

  164. Wicksten MK (1981) New records of Steromastis sculpta pacifica (Faxon) (Decapoda: Polychelidae) in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Proc Biol Soc Wash 93:914–919

    Google Scholar 

  165. Wicksten MK (1982a) Pinnixa costaricana, a new species of crab from Central America (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 95:579–582

    Google Scholar 

  166. Wicksten MK (1982b) New records of pinnotherid crabs from the Gulf of California (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 95:354–357

    Google Scholar 

  167. Wicksten MK (1983) Shallow water caridean shrimps of the Gulf of California, México. Allan Hancock Monogr Mar Biol 13:1–59

    Google Scholar 

  168. Wicksten MK (1987) A new species of hippolytid shrimp from the west coast of Mexico. Bull Southern Calif Acad Sci 86:27–33

    Google Scholar 

  169. 144b. Wicksten MK (1987) Nicoya tuberculata, a new genus and species of spider crab from Pacific Costa Rica (Majidae: Pisinae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 100:691–693

    Google Scholar 

  170. Wicksten MK (1989) Ranges of offshore decapod crustaceans in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Trans San Diego Soc Nat Hist 21:291–316

    Google Scholar 

  171. 145b. Wicksten MK (1989) A key to the palaeomonid shrimps of the eastern Pacific Region. Bull Southern Calif Acad Sci 88:11–20

    Google Scholar 

  172. Wicksten MK (1990) Key to the hippolytid shrimp of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Fish Bull 88:587–598

    Google Scholar 

  173. Wicksten MK (2000) The species of Lysmata (Caridea: Hippolytidae) from the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Amphipacifica 11:3–22

    Google Scholar 

  174. Wicksten MK, Hendrickx ME (1992) Checklist of penaeoid and caridean shrimps (Decapoda: Penaeoidea, Caridea) from the eastern tropical Pacific. Proc San Diego Soc Nat Hist 9:1–11

    Google Scholar 

  175. 148b. Wicksten MK, Hendrickx ME (2003) An updated checklist of benthic marine and brackish water shrimps (Decapoda: Penaeoidea, Stenopodidea, Caridea) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific. In: Hendrickx ME (ed.) Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans, vol 2. Instituo de Ciencias del Mar y Liminolgia, UNAM, pp 49–76

    Google Scholar 

  176. Wicksten MK, Vargas R (2001) A new species of Thor (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the tropical Eastern Pacific. Proc Biol Soc Wash 114:139–144

    Google Scholar 

  177. Williams A (1974) The swimming crabs of the genus Callinectes (Decapoda: Portunidae). Fish Bull 72:685–798

    Google Scholar 

  178. Williams A (1984) Shrimps, Lobsters and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 550 p

    Google Scholar 

  179. Williams A (1986) Mud shrimps, Upogebia, from the eastern Pacific (Thalassinoidea: Upogebiidae). San Diego Soc Nat Hist Mem. 14:1–60

    Google Scholar 

  180. Williams A (1993) Mud shrimps, Upogebiidae from the western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinoidea). Smithson Contr Zool 544:1–77

    Google Scholar 

  181. Williams A (1997) Two new species and a range extension of mud shrimps, Upogebia, from Pacific Costa Rica and Mexico (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 110:617–623

    Google Scholar 

  182. Williams A, Vargas R (2000) A new species of mud shrimp, Upogebia cortesi, from the Pacific Costa Rica (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae). Proc Biol Soc Wash 113:13–16

    Google Scholar 

  183. Wolff T (1961) Animal life from a single abyssal trawling. Galathea Rep 5:129–162

    Google Scholar 

  184. Zimmerman TL, Martin JW (1999) Brachyuran crabs of Cocos Island (Isla del Coco), Costa Rica: Leucosiidae, Calappidae, and Parthenopidae, with descriptions of two new species. J Crust Biol 19:643–668

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, 11501-2060, Costa Rica

    Rita Vargas

  2. Unidad Investigación Pesquera y Acuicultura (UNIP) of the Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), and Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, 11501-2060, Costa Rica

    Ingo S. Wehrtmann

Authors
  1. Rita Vargas
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ingo S. Wehrtmann
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Unidad Investigación Pesquera y Acuicultura (UNIP) of the Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), and Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, 11501-2060, Costa Rica

    Ingo S. Wehrtmann

  2. Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), and Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, 11501-2060, Costa Rica

    Jorge Cortés

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2009 Springer Science + Business Media B.V.

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Vargas, R., Wehrtmann, I.S. (2009). Decapod Crustaceans. In: Wehrtmann, I.S., Cortés, J. (eds) Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8278-8_19

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation