Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. the Crustacea

The chapter in the coverage of Crustacea that dealt with the taxon Brachyura--true crabs--outgrew a single volume, so the editors split it into two hefty volumes in order to accommodate all the anatomic, taxonomic, and biological information. The topics include anatomy and functional morphology, physiological adaptations to the environment, larval development and behavior strategies, social ethology, symbiotic Brachyura, parasites and diseases, genetic diversity and evolution, fossil Brachyura, phylogeny, larval systematics, and systematics and classification. The two volumes are paged and indexed as one. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

M. Charmantier-Daures is an associate professor at the University of Montpellier and well known for her work on crustacean ecophysiology and genetics. She also is an editor ofCrustaceana - International Journal of Crustacean Research Frederick R. Schram, Ph. D. (1968), University of Chicago, is Professor Emeritus of Systematics and Zoogeography, University of Amsterdam. He has published extensive on fossil and recent crustaceans across almost all major groups., including the text-reference Crustacea (Oxford Univ. Press, 1986). J. Carel von Vaupel Klein, Ph.D. (1984), Leiden University, and formerly employed there as an associate professor (now retired), works on systematics of calanoid copepods and is principal translator of the series Traite de Zoologie / Treatise on Zoology - Crustacea.