Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – Shell Disease in Crabs (pp. 1-18)
Monique Mancuso (Institute for Coastal Marine Environment (IAMC) – National Research Council (CNR), Italy)
Chapter 2 – Population Ecology of Mangrove Crabs in Brazil: Sesarmid and Fiddler Crabs (pp. 19-56)
Felipe Bezerra Ribeiro and Luis Ernesto Arruda Bezerra (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 3 – Behavioral Repertoire and Substrate Choice of the Freshwater Crab Dilocarcinus pagei Stimpson, 1861 (Decapoda, Trichodactylidae) (pp. 57-74)
Bruno Sampaio Sant’Anna, Dayane Rodrigues Andrade, Timóteo Tadashi Watanabe and Gustavo Yomar Hattori (Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia (ICET). Grupo de Pesquisa em Biologia e Produção de Organismos Aquáticos Amazônicos, Brazil)
Chapter 4 – Intracohort Cannibalism of the Mud Crab, Scylla paramamosain, Megalopae: Mechanism, Dynamics and Adaptive Significance (pp. 75-90)
Xuelei Chen, Si Chen, Xueli Zhang and Guizhong Wang (College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, China)
Chapter 5 – Biodiversity of Venezuelan Brachyuran Crabs (pp. 91-100)
Carlos Lira and Juan Bolaños (Universidad de Oriente, Núcleo Nueva Esparta. Grupo de Investigación en Carcinología (GICUDONE). Escuela de Ciencias Aplicadas de Mar. Calle Principal – La Marina, Boca del Río, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela)
Chapter 6 – Alien Crabs in the Mediterranean Sea: Current Status and Perspectives (pp. 101-160)
Dimitris Klaoudatos and Kostas Kapiris (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources, Athens-Sounio, Mavro Lithari, Anavissos, Attica, Greece)
Chapter 7 – Evolution of Mangrove Crabs Distribution in the Atlantic Coast of Cameroon (pp. 161-180)
Ndongo Din, Vanessa Maxemilie Ngo-Massou, Ernest Kottè-Mapoko, Marie Christine Essoh Mongo and Guillaume Léopold Essomè-Koum (Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, the University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon)
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