Advances in Decapod Crustacean Research: Proceedings of the 7th Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea, held at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 6–9 September 1999

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Phylogeny of decapods: moving towards a consensus....Pages 1-20
Notes on the position of the true freshwater crabs within the brachyrhynchan Eubrachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)....Pages 21-39
Molecular phylogeny of the crab genus Brachynotus (Brachyura: Varunidae) based on the 16S rRNA gene....Pages 41-46
 Austinogebia , a new genus in the Upogebiidae and rediagnosis of its close relative, Gebiacantha Ngoc-Ho, 1989 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)....Pages 47-58
Recent samples of mainly rare decapod Crustacea taken from the deep-sea floor of the southern West Europe Basin....Pages 59-70
Data on the family Pandalidae around the Canary Islands, with first record of Plesionika antigai (Caridea)....Pages 71-76
Crustacea Decapoda of the Paripe River Estuary, Pernambuco, Brazil....Pages 77-79
Intertidal habitats and decapod faunal assemblages (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Socotra Island, Republic of Yemen....Pages 81-97
The crab species found on the coasts of Gökçeada (Imbroz) Island in the Aegean Sea....Pages 99-103
Evidence of paraphyly in the neotropical Porcellanid genus Neopisosoma (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae) based on molecular characters....Pages 105-110
Growth in Crustacea — twenty years on....Pages 111-122
Sex-related variability of rostrum morphometry of Aristeus antennatus (Decapoda: Aristeidae) from the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean, Greece)....Pages 123-130
Influence of diet on sex differentiation of Hippolyte inermis Leach (Decapoda: Natantia) in the field....Pages 131-140
Combined effects of temperature and salinity on the larval development of the estuarine mud prawn Upogebia africana (Crustacea, Thalassinidea)....Pages 141-148
Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of the American lobster Homarus americanus (Nephropidae, Decapoda)....Pages 149-152
Larval abundance and recruitment of Carcinus maenas L. close to its southern geographic limit: a case of match and mismatch....Pages 153-158
Choice of prey size and species in Carcinus maenas (L.) feeding on four bivalves of contrasting shell morphology....Pages 159-170
Intertidal distribution and species composition of brachyuran crabs at two rocky shores in Central Portugal....Pages 171-177
Morphometric comparison between Mediterranean and Atlantic populations of Pontophilus norvegicus (Decapoda, Crangonidae)....Pages 179-186
Notes on the distribution and biology of the deep-sea crab Bathynectes maravigna (Brachyura: Portunidae) in the Mediterranean Sea....Pages 187-192
Notes on the biology of Cancer bellianus (Brachyura, Cancridae) around the Canary Islands....Pages 193-199
Comparative suitability of binocular observation, burrow counting and excavation for the quantification of the mangrove fiddler crab Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards)....Pages 201-212
A comparison of alternative methods for estimating population density of the fiddler crab Uca annulipes at Saco Mangrove, Inhaca Island (Mozambique)....Pages 213-219
Aspects of the population dynamics of Neosarmatium meinerti at Mgazana, a warm temperate mangrove swamp in the East Cape, South Africa, investigated using an indirect method....Pages 221-229
Seasonal abundance and recruitment in an estuarine population of mud crabs, Scylla paramamosain , in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam....Pages 231-239
Major claws make male fiddler crabs more conspicuous to visual predators: a test using human observers....Pages 241-247
Feeding activity of Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 and Callinectes danae Smith, 1869 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae) in Ubatuba, SP, Brazil....Pages 249-252
A histochemical and ultrastructural study of oogenesis in Aristaeomorpha foliacea (Risso, 1827)....Pages 253-259
Prevalence of bacteria in the spermathecae of female snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio (Brachyura: Majidae)....Pages 261-266
Discards of the Algarve (southern Portugal) crustacean trawl fishery....Pages 267-277
Effect of codend mesh size on the performance of the deep-water bottom trawl used in the red shrimp fishery in the Strait of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea)....Pages 279-291
Protein requirement of the prawn Marsupenaeus japonicus estimated by a factorial method....Pages 293-300
The effect of fixatives in the quantification of morphological lipofuscin as an age index in crustaceans....Pages 301-305