Advances in Freshwater Decapod Systematics and Biology.
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| Imprint: | Leiden : BRILL, 2014. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (302 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Crustaceana Monographs ; 19 Crustaceana monographs. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235894 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- freshwater decapod biology in the 21st Century; Freshwater crab systematics and biogeography: the legacy of Richard Bott (*1902- 974); Life span, early life stage protection, mortality, and senescence in freshwater Decapoda; Freshwater decapod conservation: recent progress and future challenges; An overview of the Afrotropical freshwater crab fauna: diversity, biogeography, and conservation (Brachyura, Potamoidea, Potamonautidae and Potamidae).
- Morphological and molecular characterization of a new species of Fredius (Decapoda, Pseudothelphusidae) from Rondò‚nia, southern Amazonia, BrazilDescription of a new freshwater crab species of the genus Potamon (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) from Iran, based on morphological and genetic characters; A new species of Isolapotamon Bott, 1968 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) from Mindanao, with notes on the Philippine Isolapotamon species.
- New occurrence of Miocene freshwater crabs (Brachyura, Potamidae) in the North Alpine Foreland Basin, Germany, with a note on fossil Potamon to calibrate molecular clocksDifferentiation within a river system: ecology or geography driven? Evolutionary significant units and new species in Jamaican freshwater crabs; The Aeglidae of Uruguay (Decapoda, Anomura), with the description of a new species of Aegla; Atyid shrimps of Hainan Island, southern China, with the description of a new species of Caridina (Crustacea, Decapoda, Atyidae).
- On the presumed phylogenetic position of the Xiphocarididae (Decapoda, Caridea) based on the larval morphology of Xiphocaris elongataDiversity and distribution of Australian freshwater crayfish with a check-list of the world Parastacidae and a key to the genera (Decapoda, Astacidea, Parastacoidea); The freshwater crayfish fauna of Australia: update on conservation status and threats.