Comprising over 15 000 living species, decapods (crabs, shrimp and lobsters) are the most
instantly recognizable crustaceans, representing a considerable global food source …

Axiidea and Gebiidae (formerly treated together as Thalassinidea) have a crypic lifestyle.
Collecting these shrimp therefore requires special field methods. The present paper reviews …

The classification of the families and genera of Callianassidae and related families
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) is significantly revised based on the results of a separately …

The axiidean families Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae, sometimes treated together as
Callianassoidea, are shown to represent a monophyletic taxon. It comprises 265 accepted …

Ghost shrimps of Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae are soft-bodied, usually heterochelous
decapods representing major bioturbators of muddy and sandy (sub) marine substrates …

Background Whole mitochondrial DNA is being increasingly utilized for comparative
genomic and phylogenetic studies at deep and shallow evolutionary levels for a range of …

Burrow-dwelling shrimps, formerly known as “thalassinids,” are attracting the attention of
researchers as ecosystem engineers. This review focuses on the ecology of upogebiid …

Patterns of diversity and faunal turnover of major groups of decapod crustaceans throughout
the Phanerozoic are analyzed based upon data from all known fossil species reported to …

Numerous trace fossils are described from the Late Miocene sediments of the Bzenec
Formation exposed at the Gbely section (the Vienna Basin, Slovakia). During deposition of …

In this report, I review the taxonomic history, body adaptations, ecology, and reproduction of
the infraorders Axiidea (ghost shrimps) and Gebiidea (mud lobsters). Known until recently as …