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Neotropical freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae) shred leaves [PDF]
Nauplius, 2020 Abstract Freshwater crabs are macroconsumers that are commonly found in Neotropical headwater streams that may play a key role in energy flow and nutrient cycling in detrital food webs. Although studies have examined the feeding habits of trichodactylid crabs, little is known of this behavior in pseudothelphusid species, and specifically whether they ...
Carol Yang +3 more
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Growth and competitions of the Australian red-claw crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) in Thailand: the experimental approaches [PDF]
Aquatic Invasions, 2023 The Australian red-claw crayfish (RCC) Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens 1868) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Parastacidae) has been introduced and promoted for freshwater aquaculture in many countries including Thailand.
Tuantong Jutagate +2 more
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Ecological Assessment of Two Species of Potamonautid Freshwater Crabs from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, with Implications for Their Conservation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The spatial ecology of freshwater crabs and their conservation status is largely understudied in Africa. An ecological assessment was conducted at 104 localities in 51 rivers and/or streams in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe whereby the distribution ...
Tatenda Dalu +7 more
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Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2022 This study investigated potential health risk associated with heavy metal bioaccumulation in freshwater organisms in Ojo River, Lagos, Nigeria. Liver, gills and muscle from fish samples and muscle and exoskeleton from crab samples were analysed for ...
V. T. Sanyaolu +2 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2022 Terrapotamon thungwa is a new species of terrestrial long-legged crab discovered in a karst landscape of southern Thailand. Here, we report the first complete mitochondrial genome of this crab species.
Chutintorn Yundaeng +7 more
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Description of two new species of the genus Heterochelamon Türkay & Dai, 1997 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae), from southern China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 This study describes two new species of freshwater crab of the genus Heterochelamon Türkay & Dai, 1997 from southern China, H. huidongense from Guangdong Province and H. jinxiuense from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Song-Bo Wang, Yi-Yang Xu, Jie-Xin Zou
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The oldest freshwater crabs: claws on dinosaur bones [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2019 Abstract With approximately 1,500 extant species, freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) are among the most diverse decapod crustaceans. Nevertheless, their fossil record is extremely limited: only Potamidae, Potamonautidae and Trichodactylidae are reported up to the Eocene of the Neotropics so far.
Robin, Ninon +7 more
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Journal of Fungi, 2023 M. bicuspidata var. bicuspidata is a pathogenic yeast which can affect aquacultured and marine-cultured animals such as brine shrimp, ridgetail white prawn, chinook salmon, giant freshwater prawn, the Chinese mitten crab, marine crab, the mud crab, the ...
Khalef Hansali +4 more
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First record of a potamid crab (Decapoda: Brachyura) from Odisha State, India [PDF]
Nauplius, 2023 Freshwater crabs of the family Potamidae Ortmann, 1896, have so far not been recorded in the state of Odisha in India. We report for the first time a potamid crab, Acanthopotamon martensi (Wood-Mason, 1875), from Odisha.
Sameer Kumar Pati +2 more
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Sexual Disruption in the Freshwater Crab (Geothelphusa dehaani) [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 To clarify the effect of environmental endocrine disruptors on the induction of secondary sexual characteristics in wild animals, we observed 1,527 male and 1,847 female specimens of sexually mature Japanese freshwater crabs, Geothelphusa dehaani, collected at 12 sample points from 10 rivers in Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
Toshikazu, Ayaki +4 more
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