Numerous crustacean lineages have independently moved into parasitism as a mode of life.
In modern marine ecosystems, parasitic crustaceans use representatives from many …

One of the most widespread coral diseases linked to anthropogenic activities and recorded
on reefs worldwide is characterized by anomalous growth formations in stony corals …

A total of 272 species of brachyuran crabs are reported from marine and estuarine
environments in northern and northeast Brazil. The checklist is derived from the literature …

Forty species of shore and shallow water brachyuran crabs are reported from the remote
oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz (TMV), 11 of which were previously known …

Coral-associated invertebrates dominate the biodiversity of coral reefs. Some of the
associations involving symbiotic invertebrates remain unknown or little studied. This holds …

We conducted gross and microscopic characterizations of lesions in Cnidaria from Palmyra
Atoll, Central Pacific. We found growth anomalies (GA) to be the most commonly …

The Caribbean scleractinian reef coral Agaricia undata (Agariciidae) is recorded for the first
time as a host of the coral-gall crab Opecarcinus hypostegus (Cryptochiridae). The identity of …

The decapod crustaceans inhabiting dead portions of the fire-coral Millepora alcicornis
Linnaeus, 1758 and coral rubble were surveyed in six reef areas on the coast of the state of …

The invasive sun corals Tubastraea spp. were introduced to Brazil in the late 1980s. The
invasion prompted rapid changes in seascapes and local biological communities by …

Coral-associated invertebrates form a major part of the diversity on reefs, but their
distribution and occurrence patterns are virtually unstudied. For associated taxa data are …