Notes on the position of the true freshwater crabs within the brachyrhynchan Eubrachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) Richard v. SternbergNeil Cumberlidge OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 39
Molecular phylogeny of the crab genus Brachynotus (Brachyura: Varunidae) based on the 16S rRNA gene Christoph D. SchubartJosé A. CuestaAntonio Rodríguez OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 46
Austinogebia, a new genus in the Upogebiidae and rediagnosis of its close relative, Gebiacantha Ngoc-Ho, 1989 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea) Nguyen Ngoc-Ho OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 58
Recent samples of mainly rare decapod Crustacea taken from the deep-sea floor of the southern West Europe Basin Ludwig Tiefenbacher OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 70
Data on the family Pandalidae around the Canary Islands, with first record of Plesionika antigai (Caridea) J.A. GonzálezJ.A. QuilesJ.I. Santana OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 76
Crustacea Decapoda of the Paripe River Estuary, Pernambuco, Brazil M. A. Coelho Dos SantosP. Alves Coelho OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 79
Intertidal habitats and decapod faunal assemblages (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Socotra Island, Republic of Yemen Nuno SimõesMichael ApelDavid A. Jones OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 97
The crab species found on the coasts of Gökçeada (Imbroz) Island in the Aegean Sea Hüsamettin BalkisNeslihan BalkisSelçuk Altinsaçli OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 103
Evidence of paraphyly in the neotropical Porcellanid genus Neopisosoma (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae) based on molecular characters Bernd WerdingAlexandra HillerBernhard Misof OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 110
Sex-related variability of rostrum morphometry of Aristeus antennatus (Decapoda: Aristeidae) from the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean, Greece) Kostas KapirisMaria Thessalou-Legaki OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 130
Influence of diet on sex differentiation of Hippolyte inermis Leach (Decapoda: Natantia) in the field Valerio Zupo OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 140
Combined effects of temperature and salinity on the larval development of the estuarine mud prawn Upogebia africana (Crustacea, Thalassinidea) José PaulaRicardo Nogueira MendesWinston Emmerson OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 148
Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of the American lobster Homarus americanus (Nephropidae, Decapoda) E. ColucciaA. CauA.M. Deiana OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 152
Larval abundance and recruitment of Carcinus maenas L. close to its southern geographic limit: a case of match and mismatch Martin Sprung OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 158
Choice of prey size and species in Carcinus maenas (L.) feeding on four bivalves of contrasting shell morphology M. MascaróR. Seed OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 170
Intertidal distribution and species composition of brachyuran crabs at two rocky shores in Central Portugal Augusto A. V. FloresJosé Paula OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 177
Morphometric comparison between Mediterranean and Atlantic populations of Pontophilus norvegicus (Decapoda, Crangonidae) S. De GraveD. Diaz OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 186
Notes on the distribution and biology of the deep-sea crab Bathynectes maravigna (Brachyura: Portunidae) in the Mediterranean Sea P. AbellóN. UngaroG. Norrito OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 192
Notes on the biology of Cancer bellianus (Brachyura, Cancridae) around the Canary Islands J.A. QuilesV. RicoJ.A. González OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 199
Comparative suitability of binocular observation, burrow counting and excavation for the quantification of the mangrove fiddler crab Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards) M.W. SkovR.G. Hartnoll OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 212
A comparison of alternative methods for estimating population density of the fiddler crab Uca annulipes at Saco Mangrove, Inhaca Island (Mozambique) Adriano MaciaIvaldo QuincardeteJosé Paula OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 219
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 W.D. Emmerson OriginalPaper Pages: 221 - 229
Seasonal abundance and recruitment in an estuarine population of mud crabs, Scylla paramamosain, in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam Lewis Le VayVu Ngoc UtDavid A. Jones OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 239
Major claws make male fiddler crabs more conspicuous to visual predators: a test using human observers Joana M. JordãoRui F. Oliveira OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 247
Feeding activity of Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 and Callinectes danae Smith, 1869 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae) in Ubatuba, SP, Brazil Alvaro Luiz Diogo ReigadaMaria Lucia Negreiros-Fransozo OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 252
A histochemical and ultrastructural study of oogenesis in Aristaeomorpha foliacea (Risso, 1827) S. DesantisM. LabateM. Ciccarelli OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 259
Prevalence of bacteria in the spermathecae of female snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio (Brachyura: Majidae) Khadra BenhalimaMikio Moriyasu OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 266
Discards of the Algarve (southern Portugal) crustacean trawl fishery P. MonteiroA. AraújoM. Castro OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 277
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) S. RagoneseM. ZagraM.L. Bianchini OriginalPaper Pages: 279 - 291
Protein requirement of the prawn Marsupenaeus japonicus estimated by a factorial method Shin-ichi TeshimaShunsuke KoshioAkio Kanazawa OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 300
The effect of fixatives in the quantification of morphological lipofuscin as an age index in crustaceans P. EncarnaçãoM. Castro OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 305
