Studying the biogeography of amphipod crustaceans is of interest because they play an
important role at lower trophic levels in ecosystems. Because they lack a planktonic larval …

An annotated checklist of the marine amphipods recorded from Indian waters is compiled
from the available peer-reviewed literature. A total of 266 species belonging to 133 genera …

A new genus of Parastenheliidae, Johnwellsia gen. nov., is proposed for its type and only
species, J. bipartita sp. nov., collected from Dadeji Beach in Xiamen, Taiwan Strait, China …

A checklist of the Recent Decapoda (shrimps, prawns, lobsters, crayfish and crabs) of the
New Zealand region is given. It includes 488 named species in 90 families, with 153 (31%) …

The relationship between species diversity and environmental parameters is poorly
understood for the mobile macrofauna of deep‐sea habitats due to under‐sampling and …

Although epibiosis is common in polyplacophorans, we describe an unusual presence of
epibionts and endobionts in a single adult specimen of Chiton articulatus collected in …

Jassa slatteryi is a cosmopolitan amphipod reported as cryptogenic or invasive species
throughout the world. Although it had been signaled in the Mediterranean Sea, it was never …

Chemosynthetic ecosystems off Aotearoa/New Zealand comprise both hydrothermal vents
on the Kermadec Arc and methane seeps on the Hikurangi Margin which host rich …

True crabs, or Brachyura, comprise over 7,600 known species and are among the most
ecologically dominant, economically significant, and popularly recognized group of extant …

A single male specimen of Goneplacid crab, Carcinoplax haswelli (Miers, 1884) is recorded
for the first time from the Indian Ocean. The crab specimen was collected from the trawl …