Migratory species are widespread in terrestrial, aquatic and aerial environments, and are
important both ecologically and economically. Since migration is an adaptive response to …

Most semiterrestrial, intertidal and shallow subtidal brachyuran crabs that live in tropical and
warm temperate estuaries, bays and protected coasts world-wide release their planktonic …

A new family Leptograpsodidae n. fam. is erected to include an unusual genus of grapsoid
crabs, Leptograpsodes, represented by a burrowing species from South Australia L …

The life history of insular gecarcinid crabs is divided into a marine larval and an adult phase,
adapted to the terrestrial environment. As adults, individuals migrate seasonally to locations …

Reproduction was studied in the land crab Johngarthia lagostoma on Ascension Island in
the central South Atlantic from 2005 to 2008. Both sexes are mature by 60-70 mm carapace …

The major variation in the pattern of postlarval growth is between indeterminate and
determinate growth. In indeterminate growth, moulting continues indefinitely, though with …

Reproductive biology of the black land crab, Gecarcinus ruricola (Linnaeus, 1758), has been
studied in the San Andres Archipelago in the Western Caribbean, on the islands of San …

Brachyurans inhabit almost all aquatic habitats, ranging from mountain streams to the
abyssal ocean, with representatives in terrestrial environments including those providing …

The Decapoda evolved in the Palaeozoic as a marine group and have since then shown
limited radiation in limnic and terrestrial environments. About 80% of the extant decapod …

Insular land crabs (Gecarcinidae) can transit between terrestrial and aquatic environments
and inhabit vacant ecological niches that other species do not occupy in oceanic islands …