The aim of this study was to describe the population structure and reproduction of Macrobrachium jelskii from a stream in the central region of São Paulo State. A total of 1,215 specimens was collected monthly during one year (February 2008 to January 2009), being 535 males, 578 females and 102 juvenile...
Background: Chitin is an important natural resource. The annual worldwide production is estimated in approximately 10(10)-10(12) ton. It is produced by arthropods (insects and crustaceans), molluscs and fungi. Its main biological function is structural. Crustacean shells are the most important chitin sou...
New additions to the crustacean decapod fauna of Bahía Culebra, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The crustacean fauna of Bahía Culebra, Guanacaste, north Pacific, Costa Rica, was studied before the 1940’s. Based on the collections, mainly of the last two decades, deposited in the Zoology Museum of the Uni...
Invertebrates associated with the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis at Playa Blanca, Bahía Culebra, Costa Rica. The coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems in the planet, not only because their reef-building species but also because of the species that live above, on, inside and belo...
O presente estudo foi conduzido com o objetivo de verificar a ocorrência de Salmonella spp. e Staphylococcus coagulase positiva em pescados e crustáceos provenientes da região nordeste no período de fevereiro de 2004 a dezembro de 2005. Das 143 amostras de peixes e crustáceos (camarão congelado e c...
Se presentan nuevos registros de copépodos ciclopodos del género Mesocyclops de Cuba. En los
trópicos, varias especies de Mesocyclops prometen ser agentes de control biológico para las larvas
de mosquitos vectores de enfermedades. Mesocyclops aspericornis es considerado pan-tropical,
pero no se habí...
Se presenta la descripción de una nueva especie de anfípodo (Gammaridea, Amphilochidae) del género Amphilochus. El material en que se ha basado el trabajo proviene de colectas de Phallusia nigra (Savigny, 1816) entre los 0 y 2 m de profundidad, realizadas en los pilotes del muelle de la Marina El Ancl...
