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Lobster Conservation - English
URL: http://www.lobsterconservation.com/

Lobster reference resource" for the American lobster, Homarus americanus.

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Land crabs of the Seychelles Islands - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/ericdemuylder/

This site attempts to give information on which crabs are living on the islands and where they can be found. Whenever possible, other information on the ecology of the crabs is added. A general desciption and pictures are also included.

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Crabs, Shrimps, Lobsters, Barnacles and Copepods - English
URL: http://www.aquariacentral.com/articles/decapoda.shtml

Members of this order are mostly marine and can be identified by having the head and thorax fused into a cephalothorax. From here, they are further divided into two sub-orders: the Natantia (shrimp and prawns), and the Raptantia, (lobsters and crabs). The Natantia are the true swimmers, using the pleopods, (tiny, feathery swimmerets found on their abdomen.

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World bibliography on subterranean Decapoda (Caridea, Astacidea, Anomura) - English
URL: http://members.aol.com/blspecies/decapoda.htm

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Lista de Decapoda (Anomura; Brachyura) para la Reserva BiolŰgica Cayos Cochinos, Honduras - Spanish
URL: http://www.ots.ac.cr/rbt/revistas/suplemen/honduras/07jaco1.htm

Decapods (Anomura and Brachyura) were surveyed for 3 months in coral reefs, seagrass beds, beaches and terrestrial areas of the largest islands at the Cayos Cochinos Biological Reserve. A total of 45 species, within their families, were recorded including: Coenobitidae (1), Diogenidae (4) for Anomuras and for the Brachyura the Raninidae family (1 species), Calappidea (1), Leucossidae (1), Majidae (14), Portunidae (7), Xanthidae (7), Grapsidae (5), Gercarcinidae (2) and Ocypodidae (2).

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Decapoda - English
URL: http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/bio/zoo/decapoda.htm

Taxonomy.

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The Dakoticancridae (Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Late Cretaceous of North America and Mexico - English
URL: http://www.uba.uva.nl/ctz/vol67/nr4/art02/6704a02.html

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The podotrematous crab family Dakoticancridae includes four genera, Dakoticancer Rathbun, Tetracarcinus Weller, Avitelmessus Rathbun, and Seorsus Bishop, all known solely from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Lathelicocarcinus Bishop, originally referred to the family, must be reassigned. Fine details of anatomy, preserved on specimens of D. overanus Rathbun and A. grapsoideus Rathbun, permit description of genital openings and interpretation of functional morphology of appendages. Although one species, D. australis Rathbun, has been found associated with burrow structures, all were probably vagrant epifaunal animals on fine- to medium-grained siliciclastic substrata. Food was probably obtained by generalized low-level predation and scavenging. Results of a cladistic analysis are consistent with the stratigraphic data suggesting that T. subquadrata Weller is nearest the rootstock of the family and that other taxa within the family are derived from it.

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Decapoda Order - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/decapoda.html

Links to species Paralithodes camtschatica, Macrocheira kaempferi.

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Crustacés de Polynésie française - Polynesian Crustacea (Decapoda and Stomatopoda) - French, English
URL: http://www.ecole-navale.fr/irenav/projets/biolum/crust/crustacea_polynesia.html

Lobsters, Crabs, Hermit crabs, Mantis shrimps, Shrimps, References, Deep investigations, Database.

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