The fiddler crab gets its name from the motion the males make with their over-sized claw during the mating ritual. The fiddler crab gets its name from the motion the males make with their over-sized ...

Problem statement Peracarida is a Superorder of the subphylum Crustacea and one of the most diverse and widely distributed groups of crustaceans. In marine coasts, peracaridean species are among the ...

The Honam National Institute of Biological Resources conducts a taxonomic study on meiobenthic animals in the rocky and sandy sediments around Dokdo's coastal waters this year and discovers two new ...

Zoological collections are fundamental repositories of biodiversity and have an important role in scientific dissemination. The National Institute of Mata Atlântica (INMA, previously called Professor ...

Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine biodiversity checklist has been updated, representing an increase of 3,630 known living species since the turn of the century. The Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand ...

Although shrimp (Parisia spp.) were the most common animal found in bores, other smaller creatures were also detected. Researchers found Syncarids, Cyclopoids, Harpactacoids and an isopod belonging to ...

No matter how you look at them, lobsters are fascinating creatures and essential members of the ocean. They have been prowling the seas for over 480 million years, fighting and eating each other the ...

Heterotremata is a clade of crabs, comprising those crabs in which the genital openings are on the sternum in females, but on the legs in males. It comprises 68 families in 28 superfamilies.

Innate immunity is the first line of defense against infections and the only known available strategy for invertebrates. Crustaceans, being mostly aquatic invertebrates, are constantly exposed to ...

Viruses that cause disease in humans comprise a tiny fraction of global virus diversity. Determining the long-term evolutionary history of disease-causing virus lineages places the events that drive ...

Epicaridea is a former suborder of isopods, now treated as part of the suborder Cymothoida. They are ectoparasites that inhabit other crustaceans, namely ostracods, copepods, barnacles and ...