The present study is the first major assessment of the marine decapod fauna of Ceará,
northeastern Brazil, since contributions of J. Fausto-Filho in the 1960s–1970s. A fully …

Clypeasteroids are a relatively young clade of echinoids that can dominate in higher energy
environments, but also can occur over wide areas of the shelf as well as in deeper …

Epibiotic species, which may be characterized as those living attached to the outer surface
of a host (the basibiont), have hardly been described as living on echinoderms, probably …

The coast of Brazil has considerable potential for interactions among marine invertebrates
due to the diversity of ecosystems, which favours the existence of different ecological …

Abstract The genera Dissodactylus and Clypeasterophilus are commensal or parasitic crabs
that live in association with irregular sea urchins. Only a single pinnotherid species is …

Se evaluaron algunos aspectos ecológicos y poblacionales del equinoideo irregular
Encope michelini en el sector La Ahumadera, bahía de Cispatá; para ello se realizaron 7 …

Crabs of the Dissodactylus genus are commonly found in symbiosis with other marine
invertebrate organisms. This study describes the structure of the population of the …

Asterocheres Boeck, 1860 is the largest genus of the siphonostomatoid copepod family
Asterocheridae, containing 63 valid species. The genus is known for its symbiotic …

ABSTRACT Calyptraeotheres garthi (Fenucci, 1975) is one of nine species of Pinnotheridae
occurring Argentina and the only species of that genus located in this region. This species …

In this study, we report the association between the pea crab Zaops ostreum (Say, 1817)
living in the oyster Crassostrea brasiliana (Lamarck, 1819), collected in an estuarine region …