Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- On the Cambrian Diversity of Crustacea / Dieter Walossek -- The Cenozoic Decapod Crustacean Fauna of Southwest Japan / Hiroaki Karasawa -- The Crustacean Collection at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University / Adam J. Baldinger -- The Crustacean Collections of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark / Torben Wolff -- Toward Understanding The Relationships of the Peracaridan Orders: The Necessity of Determining Exact Homologies / Les Watling -- Evolution of Ovarian Structure and Oogenesis in Maxillopodan Crustaceans / K. Ikuta and T. Makioka -- New Evidence on the Basic Phylogeny of the Cirripedia Thoracica / J. T. Høeg, M. A. Whyte, H. Glenner, and F. R. Schram -- The Complement of Hox Genes and Their Timing of Expression in Barnacles / Emmanuele Mouchel-Vielh, Catherine Rigolot, and Jean S. Deutsch -- Pads: Highly Functional Cuticular Structures in Cirripedia Thoracica / Waltraud Klepal and Daniela Gruber -- The External Mantle Morphology of Burrowing Barnacles of the Families Lithoglyptidae and Cryptophialidae (Cirripedia, Acrothoracica) / G. A. Kolbasov -- Comparative Morphology of the Balanidae (Cirripedia): A Primer to a Phylogenetic Analysis / Fábio Bettini Pitombo -- A Preliminary Assessment of the Characters Used in the Definitions of the Subfamilies at Present Included in the Scalpellidae Pilsbry, 1907 Sensu Newman, 1996 (Cirripedia, Thoracica) / Paulo S. Young -- The Puzzling Appearance of Specimens of a Hydrothermal Vent Barnacle from the Manus Basin, Eochionelasmus Ohtai Yamaguchi, 1990, When Brought on Deck of the R/V “Sonne” / W. Klepal, W. A. Newman, and W. Tufar -- Scanning Electron Microscopy of Sparidicola Lithognathi (Kensley & Grindley, 1973) (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from Tunisia / Bouchra Benmansour and Oum Kalthoum Ben Hassine -- Comparative Analysis of the Antennules of Asterocherid Females (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) — Symbionts of Marine Invertebrates / V. N. Ivanenko -- Species Composition and Distribution of Freshwater Calanoida and Cyclopoida (Copepoda) of Northeast Thailand / La-Orsri Sanoamuang -- Anklobrachius Marajoensis Gen. Et Sp. Nov. (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida, Ergasilidae) Described from Male Specimens Taken in Plankton Samples from the Amazon River / Vernon E. Thatcher -- A Cladistic Analysis of the Amphipod Families Ochlesidae and Odiidae, with Description of a New Species and Genus / Jørgen Berge, Wim Vader, and Oliver Coleman -- Does the Streptocephalus Vitreus-Species Group (Branchiopoda, Anostraca) Reflect Ongoing Speciation? / Luc Brendonck and Michelle Hamer -- Differentiation of two Cryptic Gammarus Fossarum Types in a Contact Area: Morphology, Habitat Preference, and Genetics / Jakob Müller, Eva Partsch, Annette Link, and Alfred Seitz -- Coexisting Gammarus Fossarum Types (Amphipoda) in Central Europe: Regular Patterns of Population Dynamics and Microdistribution / Christiane Stürzbecher, Jakob Müller, and Alfred Seitz -- Limited Gene Flow Among Populations of New Zealand Corophiid Amphipods: Evidence For Cryptic Speciation? / Kareen E. Schnabel, Ian D. Hogg, and M. Ann Chapman -- Passive Dispersal Among Fragmented Habitats: The Population Genetic Consequences for Freshwater and Estuarine Amphipods / Ian D. Hogg, John M. Eadie, and Yves de Lafontaine -- Description of a New Inland Prawn, Macrobrachium Walvanense, from India (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) / G. B. Almelkar, D. R. Jalihal, and K. N. Sankolli -- Structure and Intraspecific Variability of the Control Region Mtdna in the Pink Shrimp, Farfantepenaeus Duorarum (Decapoda, Penaeidae) / Michał Grabowski and Kenneth C. Stuck -- The Western Atlantic Shrimps of the Genus Funchalia (Decapoda, Penaeidae) / Fernando D’Incao -- Epipontonia Hainanensis, a New Species of Pontoniinae (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Hainan Island, South China Sea / Xinzheng Li -- A User-Friendly Computer Programme for the Identification of Penaeidean Prawns Along the State of Maharashtra (West Coast of India) / D. I. Pathan, Shakuntala Shenoy, and D. R. Jalihal -- Morphological Characteristics of Juvenile Specimens of Aegla (Decapoda, Anomura, Aeglidae) / G. Bond-Buckup, A. P. Bueno, and K. A. Keunecke -- Relationships Within the Stomatopod Genus Eurysquilla / Valerie A. Cappola and Raymond B. Manning -- Sem Carapace Micro-Morphology of the Family Portunidae (Brachyura, Decapoda): The Genus Liocarcinus / N. Spanò and S. Giacobbe -- Phylogenetic Relationships of the Freshwater Crabs of Lake Tanganyika (Decapoda, Brachyura) / Neil Cumberlidge and Richard von Sternberg -- The Western Pacific Brachyuran Hemigrapsus Sanguineus (Grapsidae) in its New Habitat Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States: Feeding, Cheliped Morphology and Growth / John J. McDermott -- Importance of Corophium Curvispinum G. O. Sars, 1895 (Amphipoda) in Lake Balaton (Hungary): A Colonization Study / Ilona B. Muskó and Anthony R. Russo -- Growth and Production of Corophium Curvispinum G. O. Sars, 1895 (Amphipoda), an Invader in the Lower Rhine / S. Rajagopal, G. van der Velde, B. G. P. Paffen, and A. Bij de Vaate -- A Review of the Distribution of Marine Talitridae (Amphipoda) in Ireland, Including the Results of a New Survey of Sandy Beaches / Mark J. Costello, David McGrath, and Chris Emblow -- Hyperiid Amphipods as Indicators of Climate Change in the California Current / Bertha E. Lavaniegos and Mark D. Ohman -- Global Biodiversity in Mysidacea, with Notes on the Effects of Human Impact / Karl J. Wittmann -- Polypatric Evolution of Egg Size Among Local Populations of the Palaemonid Prawn Macrobrachium Nipponense (De Haan, 1849) During Colonization of Inland Waters / Kazuo Mashiko -- The Systematics and Distribution of Australian Freshwater Amphipods: A Review / J. H. Bradbury -- Density, Diversity, and Community Patterns of Selected Peracarid Taxa (Malacostraca) in the Beagle Channel, South America / A. Brandt, U. Mühlenhardt-Siegel, and A. Schmidt -- First Record of the Hyperbenthic Calanoid Copepod Metacalanus Acutioperculum in the Mediterranean Sea / Marina Campolmi, Giuseppe Costanzo, Nunzio Crescenti, and Giacomo Zagami -- The Stomatopod Fauna of the China Seas / J. Y. Liu, Rui-Yu Liu, and Yong-Liang Wang -- Species Diversity of Benthic Crustaceans in the Varna and Burgas Bays, Black Sea / Sonia T. Ouzounova -- Taxonomy and Distribution of the Family Hyalidae (Amphipoda, Talitroidea) on the Brazilian Coast / Cristiana S. Serejo -- The First Find of Albunea Carabus (Decapoda, Anomura) on the Southern Sicilian Coasts (Strait of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea) / N. Spanò, P. Rinelli, and S. Ragonese -- Comparing Distribution Patterns of Shallow Water and Deep Water Decapod Species in the Indo-Pacific (Crustacea, Decapoda) / V. A. Spiridonov and D. G. Zhadan -- The State of Freshwater Crab Taxonomy in Indochina (Decapoda, Brachyura) / Darren C. J. Yeo and Peter K. L. Ng -- Amphipod Biodiversity in the Foliar Stratum of Shallow-Water Posidonia Oceanica Beds in the Mediterranean Sea / Maria Beatrice Scipione -- Settlement and Growth of Barnacles, Balanus Improvisos Darwin, 1854, in the Brackish Noordzeekanaal, the Netherlands / M. van der Gaag, S. Rajagopal, G. van der Velde, and H. A. Jenner -- Size at the Onset of Sexual Maturity in Chasmagnathus Granulatus Dana, 1851 (Grapsidae, Sesarminae): A Critical Overall View About the Usual Criteria for its Determination / L. S. López Greco and E. M. Rodríguez -- Fecundity of Hippolyte Obliquimanus Dana, 1852 (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae) from the Ubatuba Region, Brazil / Fernando Luis Medina Mantelatto, Jussara Moretto Martinelli, and Renata Biagi Garcia -- Aggression and Competition in the Surface Water Cambarus (Decapoda, Cambaridae) Crayfish Species of Ontario, Canada: An Overview / Radu Cornel Guiaşu and David W. Dunham -- Shell Utilization by the Hermit Crab Loxopagurus Loxochelis (Diogenidae) in Ubatuba Bay, Brazil / Jussara Moretto Martinelli and Fernando Luis Medina Mantelatto -- The Use of Straight Microhabitats Among Deep-Sea Hermit Crabs (Decapoda, Anomura, Parapaguridae) / D. G.

Zhadan -- Some Observations On Crab Megalopae on the Tungkang Coast of Taiwan / Jin-Hua Cheng, Wen-Jou Chen, and Tzyy-Ing Chen -- Larval Development of Seven Species of Lucifer (Dendrobranchiata, Sergestoidea), with a Key for the Identification of Their Larval Forms / Kazuyoshi Hashizume -- The Larval Development of the Mud Burrowing Shrimp Callianassa Sp. Under Laboratory Conditions (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Callianassidae) / Kooichi Konishi, Yasushi Fukuda, and Rodolfo Quintana -- Heart-Rate: Is it a Useful Measure of Cardiac Performance in Crustaceans? / Brian R. McMahon -- Physiological Diversity and the Colonization of Land / Peter Greenaway -- Understanding Biodiversity: The Phenotype-History-Ecology Nexus / Alan A. Myers -- Experimentally Induced Mineral Phase Change and Morphological Aberrations in Caco 3 Statoliths of Mysidacea / A. P. Ariani, G. Balassone, G. Mirone, and K. J. Wittmann -- Irreversible Eye Damage in Bresiliid Vent Shrimps Caused by Submersible Lights / E. Gaten, P. J. Herring, and P. M. J. Shelton -- An Unusually Isolated Reflector for Host Bioluminescence on the Second Antenna of a Lysianassoid (Amphipoda, Gammaridea) / Andrew Richard Parker -- The Effects of Hypo- and Hyper-Osmotic Media on Ammonia Efflux Rates and Haemolymph Constituent Levels in the Spiny Lobster, Panulirus Interruptus / Silvia Gomez-Jimenez, Roger F. Uglow, and Jorge Hernandez-Lopez -- Testicular Activity in the Shrimp Aristeus Antennatus (Risso, 1816) / Salvatore Desantis, Mario Labate, Angelo Tursi, Gianfranco D’Onghia, and Porzia Maiorano -- Control of Digestive Functions in Shrimp, I. An Inhibitor of Trypsin Activity in the Hepatopancreas / Fernando L. García-Carreño, Olimpia Carrillo, and M. Angeles Navarrete del Toro -- Purification and Some Properties of Lactate Dehydrogenase from the Shrimp, Palaemonetes Varians (Leach, 1814) (Decapoda, Natantia) / Ewa Mulkiewicz and Edward F. Skorkowski -- Comparative Studies on Some Properties of Malic Enzyme from Antarctic Krill, Euphausia Superba and the Shrimp, Palaemonetes Varians: Temperature Adaptation / Dorota Napierska and Edward F. Skorkowski -- Isolation and Identification of One Tachykinin- and Three Kinin-Related Peptides in the Central Nervous System of Penaeus Vannamei / Julia Nieto, Jan Veenstra, Etienne Waelkens, Jorge Calderón, Geert Baggerman, Dirk Veelaert, Arnold de Loof, and Liliane Schoofs -- Identification of Novel Neuropeptides in the Central Nervous System of Penaeus Vannamei / Liliane Schoofs, Julia Nieto, Pieter Torfs, Geert Baggerman, Jan W. Drijfhout, Rita Derua, Etienne Waelkens, Dirk Veelaert, Arnold de Loof, and Jorge Calderón -- Subcellular Localization of a Seric Lectin In Haemocytes from Macrobrachium Rosenbergii (Decapoda, Natantia) and its Role in Phagocytosis / Claudia Sierra, Armando Perez, Concepcion Agundis, Edgar Zenteno, and Lorena Vázquez -- Characterization of Haemocytes of the Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium Rosenbergii (Decapod A, Nanantia) by Lectin Histochemistry / Roberto Zenteno, Armando Perez, Soledad Juarez, Concepcion Agundis, Edgar Zenteno, and Lorena Vázquez -- Genome Size and At-Dna Content in Thirteen Species of Decapoda / A. M. Deiana, A. Cau, E. Coluccia, R. Cannas, A. Milia, S. Salvadori, and A. Libertini -- Reproductive and Genetic Manipulation in the Chinese Shrimp, Penaeus Chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) / J. H. Xiang, L. H. Zhou, and F. H. Li -- “Seedling” Production and Pond Culture of Hatchery-Produced Juveniles of the Mud Crab, Scylla Oceanica Dana, 1852 / Jesse D. Ronquillo, Zandro V. Pura, and Rex M. Traifalgar -- Back Matter.

This important and extensive volume presents part of the Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress held in Amsterdam in 1998. As the title implies, 'Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis' was the general, underlying theme of all contributions at the congress. With the turn of the century, someone ought to 'assess the balance' of our natural environment and of the various branches of biology that study its rapidly declining diversity. From the five subthemes covered at the conference, those of (1) Diversity in Time and Space (including Systematics, Phylogeny, and Palaeontology), (2b) Biogeography, (3c) Larvae, and (4) Physiology and Biochemistry (including Molecular Biology and Genetics) are represented in this volume, along with a few contributions from other subthemes (e.g. (2a) Invasive Crustacea, (3a) Ecology, (3b) Behaviour, and (5) Fisheries and Aquaculture ). The book is primarily meant for scientists working at institutes involved in research on the group (Crustacea: marine, freshwater, or terrestrial) and/or the disciplines covered. Individual carcinologists working on one of the themes discussed in this volume, will find a wealth of interesting and timely contributions, as will other scientists working in marine or freshwater biology or in soil ecology.

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