Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Diversity and Conservation Strategies of Freshwater Crayfish in South America: An Update
(Felipe Bezerra Ribeiro, Kelly Martinez Gomes, Augusto Frederico Huber and Tainã Gongalves Loureiro, 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 2. Crayfish of New Guinea: Current Status, Exploitation and Threats
(Jiří Patoka, Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká, Praha, Czech Republic)
Chapter 3. Morphometric and Behavioral Divergence in Procambarus acanthophorus Inhabiting in a Coastal Plain Wetland and a Mountain Pine Forest
(Leonor Mendoza-Vargas, Fabiola Galicia-Mendoza, Gabriel Arriola-Pizano, Elizabeth Guarneros-Bañuelos, Pilar Ortega, Zuly A. Sánchez-Florentino, Santa Rodríguez-Lorenzo, Edgar Flores-Soto, Bettina Sommer, Marcela Valdés-Tovar and Héctor Solís-Chagoyán, Departamento El Hombre y su Ambiente, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco, CDMX, México, and others)
Chapter 4. Non-Indigenous Crayfish Species: A Global Assessment and Future Perspectives
(Tainã Golnçalves Loureiro, Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa)
Chapter 5. Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Utilization of the Parthenogenetic Marbled Crayfish, Procambarus virginalis
(Günter Vogt, Faculty of Biosciences, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany)
Chapter 6. Integrative Taxonomy and Cryptic Diversity in Freshwater Crayfish: An Overview
(Felipe Bezerra Ribeiro, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Departamento de Zoologia [Laboratório de Carcinologia], Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Index
Audience
Scientists working on freshwater crayfish or decapod crustaceans in general, academic professors and students of Biological Sciences, Zoology, Ecology and Fisheries.
Keywords
Burrowing crayfish, Astacology, Parastacoidea, Astacoidea, Taxonomy