This checklist is the fourth contribution resulting from a long-term multidisciplinary project
which combined morphological analyses and molecular techniques (mitochondrial DNA …

DNA barcoding has emerged as an efficient tool for taxonomy and other biodiversity fields.
The vast and speciose group of decapod crustaceans is not an exception in the current …

A new classification for the freshwater crabs of the Americas, the superfamily
Pseudothelphusoidea¸ is presented based on a multigene phylogeny complemented by …

The decapod family Penaeidae comprises most of the economically important marine
shrimp species. Its members are widespread throughout the world, with its highest species …

After being stable for nearly a century, the taxonomic history of the genus Xiphopenaeus has
been marked by many changes in the last three decades. The taxonomic status of the …

The swimming crab Charybdis hellerii is an invader with global distribution in warm waters.
Native to the Indo-Pacific, this species invaded the eastern Mediterranean Sea after the …

A freshwater palaemonid shrimp from the São Francisco river basin in Brazil has been found
to be a new species and is herein nominated as Macrobrachium veredensis sp. nov. It is …

The application of DNA barcoding represents a complementary and efficient approach to
identifying specimens at all stages of their life cycle when used in combination with …

The pseudothelphusid freshwater crabs of the genus Fredius Pretzmann, 1967 are
distributed throughout northern South America and currently include 15 species. We …

The current checklist is the result of a long-term multidisciplinary project which combined
molecular techniques (mitochondrial DNA markers) and morphological analyses of adult …