Numerous crustacean lineages have independently moved into parasitism as a mode of life.
In modern marine ecosystems, parasitic crustaceans use representatives from many …

Reproductive traits are a crucial biological indicator of a population's resistance to
anthropogenic and environmental pressures. The reproductive biology of Plesionika species …

Parasites are common in modern ecosystems and are also known from the fossil record.
One of the best preserved and easily recognisable examples of parasitism in the fossil …

A checklist of caridean and stenopodidean shrimps of the Caribbean coast of Panama is
presented, based on material collected during two local workshops (2005, 2008) as well as …

The present study is a preliminary report on 36 Atlantic species of the snapping shrimp
genus Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888; 32 from the western Atlantic and four from the …

Dating back to the early Cambrian period, crustaceans had ample time to undertake endless
experimentation with form and function. Today, no other group of plants or animals on the …

We investigated aspects of the breeding biology, including the reproductive period, egg
production, and heterosexual pairing of the snapping shrimp Alpheus estuariensis in Pontal …

Probopyrus pandalicola is a bopyrid isopod that infects several palaemonid shrimp species,
including the daggerblade grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio. The parasite can have …

The fossil record of crustaceans as hosts of parasites has yielded three confirmed
associations: swellings on Jurassic–Pleistocene decapods attributed to epicaridean …

The pandalid shrimp Plesionika izumiae is a relatively common shrimp in the coastal waters
of Japan, except off northern Honshu and Hokkaido. This is one of the dominant species in …