Alpheidae


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Alpheidae

[‚al′fē·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
The snapping shrimp, a family of decapod crustaceans that is included in the section Caridea.
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The Crustacea Decapoda Macrura (the Alpheidae excepted) of Easter Island.
Record of stomatopods and decapods, including descriptions of the species of commercial interest from the submarine rises and surrounding waters of the Chilean oceanic islands (southeastern Pacific Ocean)
Descripcion y clave de los primeros estadios larvales de camarones carideos (Decapoda: Hippolytidae, Alpheidae, Rhynchocinetidae) de aguas costeras de Chile.
Procesos oceanograficos que posiblemente explican la dominancia de asociaciones de especies de zooplancton neritico tropical alrededor del Archipielago de Islas Marias, Mexico
Familia Alpheidae Alpheus lottini Guerin-Meneville, 1829
Nuevas adiciones a la fauna de crustaceos decapodos de Bahia Culebra, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Fish and decapod data were subsequently filtered to exclude taxa that were not collected as juveniles or adults in the lift-net samples, taxa that were rarely encountered, and family-level taxonomic categories that would not sufficiently exclude nonoyster reef species (e.g., Alpheidae, Gobiidae).
Freshwater inflow effects on larval fish and crab settlement onto oyster reefs
Taking their breath away: metabolic responses to low-oxygen levels in anchialine shrimps (Crustacea: Atyidae and Alpheidae).
Reproduction and development in Halocaridina rubra Holthuis, 1963 (Crustacea: Atyidae) clarifies larval ecology in the Hawaiian anchialine ecosystem
Milne Edwards, 1831) (Decapoda: Alpheidae): fecundity, reproductive output and chemical composition of eggs.
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