Insight Into the Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome of the Caribbean King Crab Maguimithrax spinosissimus (Crustacea: Brachyura: Mithracidae) to Support Fisheries Management and Conservation Initiatives [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe Caribbean King crab Maguimithrax spinosissimus is the largest brachyuran in the western Atlantic and target of subsistence, recreational, and/or artisanal fisheries.
Juan Antonio Baeza
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Zoeal Stages of Leptomithrax edwardsii (Crustacea: Decapoda: Majidae) Described From Laboratory Reared Material [PDF]
Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity, 2012 Zoeas of Leptomithrax edwardsii were reared in the laboratory. Two zoeal stages are described and illustrated. The first zoeal stage of L. edwardsii is compared with those of seven known species of the family Majidae. It differs from previous description
Yong-Seok Lee
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A new species of deep-water spider crab of the genus Paramaya De Haan, 1837 from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 The identity of the majid species of Paramaya De Haan, 1837, in the Indian Ocean is clarified with the collection of fresh specimens from the Bay of Bengal. Previously identified as P. spinigera (De Haan, 1837) which is known only from Japan, Taiwan, and
Peter K. L. Ng +2 more
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The highly rearranged mitochondrial genomes of the crabs Maja crispata and Maja squinado (Majidae) and gene order evolution in Brachyura [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 We sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of the spider crabs Maja crispata and Maja squinado (Majidae, Brachyura). Both genomes contain the whole set of 37 genes characteristic of Bilaterian genomes, encoded on both α- and β-strands.
Andrea Basso +5 more
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Los cangrejos araña (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea) del Caribe colombiano
Biota Colombiana, 2003 En Colombia y específicamente en el Caribe colombiano se han hecho algunos trabajos donde se registran especies de Majidos, entre los más completos encontramos el de Vélez (1977) y Lemaitre (1981) sin embargo hay bastante información dispersa.
Norella Cruz Castaño +1 more
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Scientia Marina, 2003 The spider crab Pyromaia tuberculata (Lockington, 1877) (Decapoda, Majidae) has been recorded from eastern Pacific coasts (México to Colombia), the western Pacific (Japan and New Zealand) and the western Atlantic (southern Brazil, near Rio de la Plata ...
Tomás A. Luppi, Eduardo D. Spivak
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Scientia Marina, 2009 The post-larval development of the majid crab Maja brachydactyla Balss, 1922 was studied using laboratory-reared larvae obtained from adult individuals collected in the NE Atlantic. The morphology of the first juvenile stage is described in detail, while
Guillermo Guerao, Guiomar Rotllant
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Scientia Marina, 1999 Egg production and reproductive investment were studied in the spider crab Eurypodius latreillii from the Straits of Magellan, southern Chile. A total of 66 ovigerous females were analyzed, ranging in size from 29.0 to 62.9 mm carapace length.
N. Navarrete +4 more
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Natural History Sciences, 2014 Report of Maja cf. Maja squinado (herbst, 1788) (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majidae) from the Early Pliocene of Cheglio (varese, northern Italy) In situ hermit crab (Anomura, Paguroidea, Diogenidae) from the Pliocene of Castelnuovo Berardengo, (siena ...
the Authors
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Reproductive biology of Mithrax forceps (A. Milne-Edwards, 1875) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Majidae)
Ciencias Marinas, 2001 Some aspects of the reproductive biology of Mithrax forceps were studied based on 580 specimens (380 males and 200 females) collected at Chacachacare, Margarita Island, Venezuela, from April 1984 to March 1985 and from July to November 1991.
IM Hernández-Reyes +3 more
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