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No compromise between metabolism and behavior of decorator crabs in reduced pH conditions. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Many marine calcifiers experience metabolic costs when exposed to experimental ocean acidification conditions, potentially limiting the energy available to support regulatory processes and behaviors. Decorator crabs expend energy on decoration camouflage
Graeve, Olivia A   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Reproductive biology and relative growth in the spider crab Maja crispata (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majidae)

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2003
A series of life-history traits in the spider crab Maja crispata were studied on the island of Ischia (Italy) during four sampling periods in 1982: sex ratio, relative growth, sexual maturity, reproductive season, number of eggs per female, copulation ...
Carlos A. Carmona-Suárez
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstructing discards profiles of unreported catches [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In Portugal it has been estimated that unreported catches represent one third of total catches. Herein, information on landings and total unreported catches (discards) by commercial métier were disaggregated into high taxonomic detail using published ...
Almeida   +53 more
core   +3 more sources

Oxygen consumption of the freshwater crab Elamenopsis kempi (Chopra and Das, 1930) from the Garmat-Ali river, Iraq

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2000
The rate of oxygen consumption of the subtidal hymenosomatid crab Elamenopsis kempi, was studied from February 1988-December of the same year. The experiments were conducted by a Gilson respirometer over a wide temperature range (15-35°C), with the aim ...
Malik H. Ali   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Additional records of decapod crustaceans from the lowerPleistocene beds of Poggi Gialli (Tuscany, central Italy)

open access: yesGeologija, 2020
Additional species of decapod crustaceans are recorded from the lower Pleistocene beds exposed at the Poggi Gialli quarries (Sinalunga, Tuscany, central Italy). They include Galathea tuscia sp. nov., Ilia sp., Liocarcinus cf. L. maculatus (Risso, 1827),
Giovanni PASINI   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

DNA barcoding unveils skate (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) species diversity in ‘ray’ products sold across Ireland and the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Skates are widely consumed across the globe, but many large species are subject to considerable concern regarding their conservation and management. Within Europe such issues have recently driven policy changes so that, for the first time, reports of ...
Barbuto   +31 more
core   +1 more source

Brachyura

open access: yes, 1904
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +3 more sources

Northernmost record of the pantropical portunid crab Cronius ruber in the eastern Atlantic (Canary Islands): natural range extension or human-mediated introduction?

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2017
The pantropical crab Cronius ruber (Lamarck, 1818) (Brachyura: Portunidae) is recorded for the first time from the Canary Islands. Previously known from off Cape Verde Islands and Senegal, this is the northernmost record of the species in the eastern ...
José A. González   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The first zoeal stage of Parthenope macrochelos (Herbst, 1790) hatched in the laboratory (Crustacea: Brachyura: Parthenopidae)

open access: yesScientia Marina, 1999
The first zoeal stage of the parthenopid crab Parthenope macrochelos is described and illustrated from laboratory-hatched material obtained from an ovigerous crab captured in the western Mediterranean. The first larva of P.
Guillermo Guerao, Pere Abelló
doaj   +1 more source

Temperature effects on zoeal morphometric traits and intraspecific variability in the hairy crab Cancer setosus across latitude [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
International audiencePhenotypic plasticity is an important but often ignored ability that enables organisms, within species-specific physiological limits, to respond to gradual or sudden extrinsic changes in their environment.
A Clarke   +39 more
core   +3 more sources

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