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The spider crabs of America

open access: yesBulletin of the United States National Museum, 1925
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
exaly   +3 more sources

Epibiotic Communities of Common Crab Species in the Coastal Barents Sea: Biodiversity and Infestation Patterns

open access: yesDiversity, 2021
Crabs are important ecosystem engineers in marine habitats worldwide. Based on long-term data, we analyzed the species composition and infestation indices of epibionts and symbionts colonizing the great spider crab, Hyas araneus, and two lithodid crabs ...
Alexander G. Dvoretsky   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Species–specific crab predation on the hydrozoan clinging jellyfish Gonionemus sp. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), subsequent crab mortality, and possible ecological consequences [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2017
Here we report a unique trophic interaction between the cryptogenic and sometimes highly toxic hydrozoan clinging jellyfish Gonionemus sp. and the spider crab Libinia dubia.
Mary R. Carman   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Attentional, emotional, and behavioral response toward spiders, scorpions, crabs, and snakes provides no evidence for generalized fear between spiders and scorpions

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Spiders are among the animals evoking the highest fear and disgust and such a complex response might have been formed throughout human evolution.
E. Landová   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

New Records of the Hydrozoan Coryne hincksi Bonnevie, 1898 on Red King Crabs in the Barents Sea

open access: yesDiversity, 2023
Coryne hincksi Bonnevie, 1898 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) is a rare corynid hydrozoan that was first found in the coastal Barents Sea on the surface of other hydrozoan species and on the body of spider crabs in 1913.
Ninel N. Panteleeva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spider crabs of the Western Atlantic with special reference to fossil and some modern Mithracidae [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2015
Spider crabs (Majoidea) are well-known from modern oceans and are also common in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. When spider crabs appeared in the Western Atlantic in deep time, and when they became diverse, hinges on their fossil record.
Adiël A. Klompmaker   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

DNA barcoding of the spider crab Menaethius monoceros (Latreille, 1825) from the Red Sea, Egypt

open access: yesJournal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 2021
Background Most spider crab species inhabiting the Red Sea have not been characterized genetically, in addition to the variation and complexity of morphological identification of some cryptic species.
Mohamed Abdelnaser Amer
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular phylogeny of Thoe Bell, 1836 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea)

open access: yesNauplius, 2022
Thoe Bell, 1836 is amphi-American in distribution and includes small spider crabs with cryptic habits and rare records in the literature and carcinological collections.
Jessica Colavite   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Revision of the deep-water spider crab genus, Scyramathia A. Milne-Edwards, 1880, with the description of a new species from the Mediterranean and notes on Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875, and Anamathia Smith, 1885 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Epialtidae) [PDF]

open access: yesZoosystematics and Evolution, 2020
The taxonomy of the deep-water spider crabs of the genus Scyramathia A. Milne-Edwards, 1880, is revised and four extant species are recognised from the Atlantic and western Indian Ocean: S. carpenteri (Norman, in Thomson 1873) (type species), S. umbonata
Bee Yan Lee   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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